[KCDXC] 1970's Mad River Radio Club "Scandal"

[tombaugh]

I know Steve, He's a hard core ham.
He's a die hard low bander with dreams of hearing what the east coasters
hear while in an RF Retention basin.
The days of  the Low Banders is coming... Are you... ready?
I wonder if Steve could make a weekly treck out to KC for some contesting?
Bring a few Alphas with you.

Tom Baugh
AE9B
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Boeckenhaupt" <ak0a@kc.rr.com>
To: <kcdxc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [KCDXC] 1970's Mad River Radio Club "Scandal"


> Now see what you did Tom, you got this guy in Colorado all fired up and
now
> he is all bent out of shape. Aint you ashamed of yourself. (by the way he
is
> an ex Kansas ham.)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lance Johnson" <lance@diac.com>
> To: <kcdxc@mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 7:55 AM
> Subject: [KCDXC] 1970's Mad River Radio Club "Scandal"
>
>
> > Back in the 1970's, when I was getting started in contesting as an entry
> level
> > SS type and living in Dayton, Ohio, some enterprising people formed the
> > "original" Mad River Radio Club.
> >
> > There was a nice newsletter and the regional club had some ambitious
> goals,
> > including the winning of the ARRL Sweepstakes.
> >
> > Stations were recruited from W8 and W9 land and many handwritten logs
were
> > properly sent into the ARRL for processing with Mad River Radio Club
> > affiliation.
> >
> > The result was that the Mad River Radio Club, in one of the greatest
> upsets in
> > the history of contesting, won the SS Club Championship that year.....
for
> a few
> > months.
> >
> > The sour grapes pressure from the established EAST COAST clubs was so
> immense
> > and threats to Directors so great that the ARRL disavowed the Mad River
> Radio
> > Club victory and awarded it to one of the EAST COAST regulars.
> >
> > The handy vehicle the ARRL used was "meeting attendance" and later the
> well
> > defined circle game was implimented to precisely sabotage any Midwest
> threats to
> > EAST COAST dominance.
> >
> > Rumor has it that the ARRL hired a demographics professional to insure
> that NO
> > MIDWEST club would ever win the SS and that's how the mileage figures
were
> > developed at the levels you see today.
> >
> > If you saved your QST's or have the QST 1970's CD ROM you can read about
> the
> > whole butt ugly episode. (They made Mad River look like idiots.)
> >
> > By the way, I got my first clean sweep in that one as WB8IAY and had a
> > respectable 120,000 points on SSB as a tyro.
> >
> > My suggestion would be to change the club name to: "Midwest Christian
Hams
> for
> > Jeusus" and recruit from anywhere in ZERO District that is reasonable.
> >
> > Trust me, the ARRL would NOT mess with any mileage trivia on your entry,
> my
> > fellow "religious freedom" enthusiasts!
> >
> > And now you know why LANCE JOHNSON ENGINEERING has NEVER advertised in
QST
> in 25
> > years of selling ham accessories.
> >
> > 73, Steve, K0CS
> >
> > http://www.qth.com/lance
> > http://www.qth.com/lowband
> >
> >
> >
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