[Boatanchors] Re: QTH NET raffle

[GBrown]

Hi Mac:
    If you enter and win the $2500.00, then you can buy a BC-610 and take
the wife out to supper.
My .02 cents worth.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "J.D. Mac Aulay, WQ8U" <jmac6235 at yahoo.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 11:56 AM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Re: QTH NET raffle


> This is a very difficult and delicate issue so I will
> try to address it simply.  The donation of an
> IC756PRO3 for the fund raising activity to help the
> QTH NET is very generous and the activity is certainly
> meritorius so both are to be applauded.
>
> However, this is the "BOATANCHOR" board. The IC756
> appears to me to be the antithesis of a Boatanchor.
> It is like offering Tofu to a carnivore.  I would be
> much more excited and motivated if the prize was a
> Johnson Desk KW or BC-610 or similar classic
> Boatanchor.
>
> While the option is available to take cash in place of
> the rice box rig, that reduces the incentive to a much
> more mundane and generic level.  When it is reduced to
> a monitary prize, the issue of number of chances
> becomes more important because it is now a statistical
> analysis and risk decision, not an exciting
> emotionally driven impulse decision.  Not that I would
> turn down $2,500 but is not the same as a classic
> Boatanchor.  A check does not glow in the dark - even
> though it is believed by some that money will burn a
> hole in your pocket!
>
> That's my $0.02 worth - or is it $15.00 worth?
>
> Mac
> WQ8U
>
> Now for the shameless plug for the CX:
> As the rules for the CLASSIC EXCHANGE "CX", which will
> be held FEBRUARY 13, 2005, say: Modern rigs may be
> used but boatanchors have an advantage.
>
>
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