To see the reason that your conditions are continuously eroded... go to the HKAOA office, look back in the records all those years ago, and see how the vote, both by the HKAOA Committee and the members, went on the introduction of 'B' scales.
The white flag of personal expediency was nailed to the mast that day, and it has never, despite the 49'ers and all the rest, ever been hauled down.
