[PPRAANet] Has Field Day become a contest?

[John Bloodgood]

This was a subject discussed in the last ARRL HQ Public Relations Committee (I am a PRC member). The purpose of Field Day is to be an open house to the public, but it has become kind of a contest. In some cases, the ARRL has tried to use points to encourage people to reach out to the public by assigning points for invites to elected officials, press releases, social media use, public information tables, being set up in a public area, etc. The points for radio contacts are a lot more like a regular contest, but do motivate some people to participate.

So the question becomes, how do we encourage participation and reaching out to the media, officials, and public other than assigning points and giving people some bragging rights?

If anyone has thoughts on that, let me know and I can bring it up to the committee for discussion.







John Bloodgood, KD0SFY


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To: ***Reflector PPRAA*** <ppraanet at mailman.qth.net>; Glenn <n3ulw at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [PPRAANet] Has Field Day become a contest?

Perhaps if the League would promote it as NOT being a contest and wouldn't make such a deal about publishing all of the "winners" in various categories, participants would be much more courteous and less contesty. Just my humble opinion. 73, de k0dc

    On Thursday, July 18, 2019, 10:11:58 AM CDT, Glenn <n3ulw at comcast.net> wrote:

      Mike:

   I've been saying for years it has become a contest. Yes we, hams go
out and set up to make contacts but from my prospective it has gone from
bragging rights to

contesting extreme. My take is/ was it was to test our mettle, to go
out, set up and make as many contacts as possible. Alas from my take it
has degenerated into

just one more contest! Just my two cents worth!!

Glenn n3ulw

On 7/17/2019 8:00 PM, wv7t--- via PPRAANet wrote:
> I submitted the results of PPRAA Field Day on the site where I have always submitted without any problems. Field Day is supposed to be a emergency preparedness exercise not a contest. I received an e-mail from ARRL requesting a cabrillo format copy of all FD contacts.I have never sent log extracts for FD. Cabrillo files are always used for true contests. I am waiting for ARRL to respond to an e-mailI sent out asking why this change as FD is not a contest.
> Stand by to stand by.
> If we fail to be recognized in the FD listings in the fall I am at fault. The reply from ARRL will hopefully shed some light on the extreme change in FD reporting criteria.
> Mike WV7T
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