On 12/8/2011 8:22 AM, Eddy Swynar wrote: > Hi Guys, > > If each& every one of the contributors (and there are many!) to this thread > about the 160-meter contest was to take pen& paper in hand& actually WRITE > to his/her representative on the ARRL Contest Committee---with a "cc" to the > committee chairman---I'm sure the numbers alone would make them sit up& > listen... >
Eddy, I have been sending them (ARRL CAC) e mails for the last decade and only a few have replied with "we will look into it" but that is about it. There is something about the ARRL that they go into a bunker mode mindset when even friendly suggestions are made to improve on obvious structural contest mistakes. I am a member of the ARRL and that membership should at least allow access to the CAC. I wish their meetings would be transparent and we could present arguments in writing on agenda issues. IMHO that is the way an open organization is supposed to work. Again after 10 years of writing on this I have no idea if the matter of correcting the ARRL 160 meter contest problems was even discussed or voted on. In their January 2011 Annual Report the CAC did mention that improvements to the ARRL International DX Contest, "upon instructions from the PSC" (whatever that is) " by tasking the CAC to review the rules for possible improvement." I have no idea why the PSC (Programs and Service Committee) is another level of bureacracy needed to improve contests except that the PSC is made up entirely of ARRL Directors and ARRL staff. If it is true that the PSC "instructs" the CAC then the PSC needs to be informed of the obvious deficiency of the ARRL 160 Meter DX Contest. I will keep trying to contact CAC members but I don't hold out much hope they will even deal with this. And as they don't more and more Top Band regulars are deciding like myself not to participate anymore until they at least realize the issues on this contest are value ones to consider. 73, Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK