[Elecraft] Contest anyone ?

[David A. Belsley]

Albert:
  The idea of a K2/K1 contest has indeed been discussed on this reflector, 
and, I am thankful, has been mainly negged.  From my perspective, one more 
contest is decidedly not needed.  There are entirely too many as there are. 
Also, from my perspective, specialized contests are a special annoyance to 
the vast majority of other hams who are not specialized.  When you really 
stop to think of it, such affairs are a form of arrogance and ego feeding 
that, for most, is rather unfortunate.  I think you will find, for example, 
that there is no contest more despised by a very large number of hams than 
the FOC contest, whose purpose, I must admit, eludes me -- beyond affording 
a rather disgusting ego trip for those self-appointed sorts that, somehow, 
consider themselves "first class."  There would have to be a similar sort 
of feeling by non K2/K1 owners about a proprietary contest for these rigs.

And, really, there isn't a need for it.  When two K2/1 ops make contact, 
there is typically an exchange of serial numbers, and you can have your own 
continuing contest in trying to amass as large a number of other K2/1s as 
you can. I know there are some among us that have huge numbers here -- far 
more than I'll ever have.  If you want a contest, try to catch up to them 
-- on your own.

Just my humble opinion,

dave belsley, w1euy

--On Thursday, January 31, 2002 5:28 PM -0500 Albert Miles 
<wa4cmi@home.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm a proud new owner of a K1 and i'm also new to this list...
> Perhaps this idea has been discussed before and pardon me if so...
> What would everyone think about a contest for K1 and K2 owners where we
> exchange something such as first name, type of radio(K1 or K2), rig
> serial number and perhaps your state...No signal reports please ! Of
> course, we would need a sponsor and who better than Elecraft... There
> seems to be enough of a Elecraft customer base to pull this off if the
> interest is there... Just a thought...
>
>                                                 Albert, wa4cmi
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David A. Belsley
Professor of Economics