[Rdxa-bod] FW: ARRL DX Contests

[Paul Kolacki]

I received this from W2LU today.  I now forward it to you for your reading
pleasure.

 

FX

 

From: Gene Fuller [mailto:w2lu at rochester.rr.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 2:46 PM
To: Capt. Paul Kolacki; C R Shalvoy; Ken Boasi
Subject: ARRL DX Contests

 

Hi Paul,Chris and Ken -

 

I continue to be disappointed in the club's focus.  With less than two
months until the ARRL DX contests. it seems as though our focus is already
going to be on six months away - Field Day. And then it will be SS and then
NYQP.  My observation is that over the years the club has morphed from a DX
club to a domestic contest club and I may now be in a minority of the
membership more interested  in DX and not so much in just high numbers of
stateside Q's.  

 

I have nothing against the stateside contests, it's just that that is not
where my primary interests lie. I'm afraid that at this point it would be
useless to pole the membership since for sure there is a strong, vocal,
group focused on Field Day/SS/NYQP  activity which would dominate. Perhaps
realistically we (I) should just acknowledge the fact that we are just a
contest club and that one of the contest areas that we are interested in
might be the various DX contests. 

 

I would think that RARA would be the place for general contesting and RDXA ,
by name at least, would be the place for DX'ing and DX contests.

 

Just my nickel's worth.

 

73's,

 

Gene / W2LU

 

 

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