[amsat-bb] Re: FD Mess

[KM9U]

Do we really need to write more and/or change the rules. We just need to 
obey the rules we learned a long time ago. Really, aren't the rules that 
govern Amateur Radio Etiquette similar to the same rules that we learned in 
Kindergarten?
"These are the things I learned:
    Share everything.
    Play fair.
    Don't hit people.
    Put things back where you found them.
    Clean up your own mess.
    Don't take things that aren't yours.
    Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
    Wash your hands before you eat.
    Flush.
    Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
    Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and 
sing and dance and play and work every     day some.
    Take a nap every afternoon.
    When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and 
stick together.
    Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the 
roots go down and the plant goes up and     nobody really knows how or why, 
but we are all like that.
    Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the 
Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
    And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you 
learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK."
Everything you need to know about Ham Radio and life in general is in there 
somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and 
politics and equality and sane living.
[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert 
Fulghum]

;-)) And here's to wishing you a Happy Field Day 2012!
Chuck, KM9U



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Cunningham" <tim_cunningham at charter.net>
To: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 17:49
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FD Mess


Read the AMSAT rules. The title of the AMSAT rules IS clear when you read
the title as "2011 AMSAT Field Day Competition ".


Tim - N8DEU


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Geiger" <aa5jg at fidmail.com>
To: "STeve Andre'" <andres at msu.edu>
Cc: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 2:11 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FD Mess


Of course it isn't a contest.  The best evidence is that they print the
scores in QST!

73s John AA5JG

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:09 PM, STeve Andre' <andres at msu.edu> wrote:

> Well, is IS a contest, no matter what the ARRL says.  People see it as
> such.
> My first FD before I was a ham, looked like a contest to me and it was
> only
> later, reading all the ARRL books I could get ahold of that I realized it
> really wasn't one.
>
> All contests where you go outside are test runs for emergency stuff.
> Our club in Ann Arbor MI (Arrow Communication Association) does the
> summer vhf+ contests outside (6m-1296) and those have been a great
> way to figure out  ways of doing stuff.
>
> I would argue that the ARRL needs to change the way they talk, and
> offer FD as both a contest and exercise in communications, and
> speak of the exercise opportunities at the other contests, especially
> those of rovers.
>
> --STeve Andre'
> wb8wsf  en72
>
> On 06/27/11 14:21, Nigel Gunn wrote:
> > A bigger FD problem is that FD is advertised as a chance to demonstrate
> > your emergency comms ability to Joe Public.
> > FD is NOT a contest so why are points and bonuses  involved at all?
> >
> > On 27/06/11 19:13, Bill Acito W1PA wrote:
> >> I think we have to let go of the mantra that “any use of the bandwidth
> is good use” with respect to  “encouraging more satellite activity”. Wasn’t
> that the original intent of the “100 point bonus” items? To encourage
> specific activities – traffic handling, promotion, emergency power, etc.
> >>
> >
>
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