[Elecraft] QRQ CW

[Phil Wheeler]

I'm with you on this, Gary. Too many contests 
cluttering the bands these days; the list for one 
month fills a page or more. In the past I 
participated casually. Nowadays, not at all.

Phil w7ox

On 4/30/14, 5:53 AM, AG0N-3055 wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 06:49:18 -0500, Kevin Stover wrote:
>
>> Maybe if the big contest guns did the same we wouldn't have the visceral
>> anti-contest attitudes displayed, and get more people involved.
> You're talking to one of the anti crowd.  It has nothing to do with
> speed.  It has to do with the fact that most of us don't like the chaos
> of contests, and the fact that for some reason, people seem to think
> there needs to be some sort of contest every damned weekend.  Boy do I
> relish the old days where there were less than a hand full of contests a
> year.  The two main ones were Field Day and Sweepstakes.  If you were
> into DX, there was the annual DX contest.
>
> Contests were something SPECIAL those days, and even I took part in
> them.  They were fun because they were special.  These days, there's
> nothing special at all about them.  You can't even get a meaningful
> signal report now.  Your 5NN, but would you repeat because you're too
> weak to copy.  They are just another boring noisy weekend when you can't
> enjoy the bands.
>
> Gary