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members only event

HA HA HA my ass!

No such thing on the ham bands.

"Carl WA1KPD" wrote in message
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To those of you who were planning to join the AWA CW contest over the next
two weekends be aware that it is a members only event. I just learned so
today. Be careful not to intrude and work someone.(see emails below)

I will be testing out my new Hartley and look forward to anyone else
(Member or not) who want to communicate with Old Time rigs.I will try not
to intrude upon their contest frequencies

This is in no way a shot at Marc who was kind enough to point out the
rules to me.

As a former (for no particular reason) member who has attended the
Rochester meet I have listened to the complaints about AWA over the last
few years and not thought much about them one way or the other. But I now
do see why people complain that they act as an exclusive group.

Yes, I know I could join again and play in the sandbox the next two
weekends, but to be honest I'm not sure I care to anymore.

From: Carl Nord ]
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 12:11 PM
To: '
Subject: [AWA] Contest

Marc,

In all sincerity, thank you for the clarification as well as the others
who were kind enough to fully respond to my question. There certainly were
some rather unhelpful initial responses.

I will continue to finish my HB Hartley this weekend but will make sure
(as a former member) that I abide by the AWA rules and endeavor not to
intrude on the frequencies and work any of the AWA members.

That being said I will be on the air next weekend and perhaps some of the
other non- AWA members might like to pick a frequency to exercise our OT
equipment?

Carl
WA1KPD
Visit My Boatanchor Collection at
http://home.comcast.net/~chnord/wa1kpd.html

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From:
] On Behalf Of MARC
ELLIS
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 11:53 AM
To:
Subject: [AWA] Contest

Hello all--

I've seen the recent queries posted about the AWA 1929 QSO party.

I guess I should jump in and try to clear this up, though I have no
official connection with the AWA ham contests.

Our new AM QSO party, being chaired by Gary Carter, is the only one open
to all hams. The other contests, including the 1929 QSO party, are open to
members only.

The only reason you will find the dates of the QSO party on our web site
is that we had to correct the wrong dates that were accidentally sent to
the Journal and printed there. Frequencies, times, scoring info, etc are
in the Journal but never posted on the site for obvious reasons.

Logs are sent out by contest chairman John Rollins only to previous
participants or members who are newly applying for them.

Friends, this is a public service announcement only. I definitely don't
want to get involved in discussions about the right or wrong of this, nor
would it be appropriate for me to do so. Suffice it to say that John and
the AWA have very good reasons for restricting the contest , though I can
also see the other side of the questrion.

Marc Ellis, N9EWJ
Editor, The AWA Journal