Thanks Gerry. I understand your point of view and respect it.
It would seem that 3830 is somewhat addressing your interest in comparing
"apples to apples" from a time standpoint.
I remember Ward Silver had some dialog going a while back about the "contest
within a contest" approach. He has attempted to do this with IARU for M/S Low
Power. Since we are all just happy enough to have gotten the CQ WW certs we
have recently, it would seem that adding more to that is unlikely. However,
maybe one of the contest clubs would be successful in more fully implementing
N0AX's approach and more fully institutionalize this type of approach.
73 and see you in the 'tests.
Ed N1UR
-----Original Message-----
From: "Gerry Treas, K8GT" <k8gt@twmi.rr.com>
Sent: Nov 17, 2005 8:39 PM
To: sawyered@earthlink.net
Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Competitor Friendly Contesting
I respect Ed and Kirk's contesting skills and acumen highly. I also
think they are really nice guys, too! But I strongly disagree with
their analogies and conclusions. In a marathon, or race of any kind you
do not need anyone else, except to provide the sponsor with enough
bodies to provide interest, but in a radio contest you "Top Ten - Top
Guns" need all of us "also-rans" and casual contesters, and you need to
generate interest among us so that we participate to help raise your
score.. That score would be rather measly if all of us weren't in the
"mix". I came to contesting rather late (the last 15 years) and I have
a hard time now staying awake at night, at 60 + years. I have only had
modest stations and I like to contest from home, the bathroom breaks are
all too frequent to do justice at a Multi-Op. I have done a few stints
at K8CC, thanks Dave, and 2 CQWW CW's at PJ2T, and had a ball. But now,
I really would like to be able to compare my results with others of my
limited abilities and resources. You need us "cannon fodder", so how
about throwing us a bone? A chance for a certificate for our 24 hour or
whatever limited. It's not like we'd ever try to say that we "won the
contest" if we received one. I'm beyond ever being able to go the full
48, do you want me to just forget about it and go do something else?
73, Gerry K8GT Still tryin', but not bloody likely to get anywhere.
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