On 21 Aug 2020, Sean Dennis said the following...
 
 SD>    The ARRL Letter                                                      
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 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
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 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

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