Hi Topbanders Guy K2AV - Lots of philosophy ...
ARRL has a program: http://www.arrl.org/system/dxcc/view/DXCC-160M-20190624-A4.pdf#page=1&zoom=auto,-12,848 ARRL is obliged to protect this program! But ARRL does not do this ... This rating has lost its value today. Unfortunately... --- Nick, UY0ZG http://www.topband.in.ua Guy Olinger K2AV писал 2019-06-24 00:18:
It does seem, at the moment not being entirely wrapped up in ham radio, that there certainly is the analogue of OK1YQ in just about every realm of life. I can think of a few names that I personally found intensely irritating in the particular circumstances. So I DO understand the pique. When will the &#%@%$ so n so finally get his, and a list of similar thoughts probably familiar to everyone on this list. It would seem to me, the fact that I can even remember OK1YQ, specifically for cheating and nothing else, as well as several other calls for the same violation, is already punishment metered out. What does any of us want to bubble up in another's memory when they run into our call sign? We are not diminished by his cheating. He is. That he cannot recognize that and abandon the cheating, desperately needing the unearned magnitude on the list to prop up his self-image and soothe his searing feelings of inferiority, should be the object of pity, not an affront to ourselves. I'll agree with Ken, that the complex electronics and programming of modern ham radio increases methods and means of cheating. But shall we all cry "Foul! Alas!" and throw our life-long favorite toy in the dust bin? Not me. I have too many really great ham friends, across a lifetime, too many gone on and missed, more for their great quality as human beings than anything. OK1YQ is a gnat. Let's not give him more than a gnat's worth of attention: Smack it with our key hand during the contest logger auto-send and back to the keyboard in time for the return exchange... W0UCE's lifelong rye humour, marvelous culinary skills, and essential basic charity toward humanity will forever define what bubbles up whenever I hear or see his call sign. Ponder on your version of W0UCE and smile upon the wonderful fortune of that. 73 all, Guy K2AV
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