Subj : Re: The Weekly ARRL Letter To : Sean Dennis From : Andre Robitaille Date : Fri Aug 21 2020 09:05 am On 21 Aug 2020, Sean Dennis said the following... SD> The ARRL Letter SD> SD> The Intrepid-DX Group has announced the winners of its first annual SD> Youth "Dream Rig" Essay Contest. "We received over 60 essays from SD> SD> The first-place winner and recipient of an Icom IC-7300 transceiver SD> is Faith Hannah Lea, KD3Z. She will also receive a vertical flagpole I'm so annoyed by this. Her essay was just the usual "show youth how fun it is to make DX contacts" nonsense. Of course that's what OMs and the Intrepid group wants to hear, so the family of beggars wins again. Problem is that when you talk to actual youth, they don't care at all about ragchewing with OMs or DX contacts or contesting. I hope they publish all the essays, because certainly there must be some good ideas in the sixty submissions. - Andre, WT9X --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Raspberry Pi/32) * Origin: Runaan BBS (1:154/70) .