I disagree. I am sure that there are many field day locations that could be
considered "fun". Field day in my area is not. I stopped participating in
field day (outdoors/generator) sometime ago. This time of year is entirely
too uncomfortable (maybe dangerous). We are hitting 100+ degrees (not
unusual) every day, and the humidity is high. I realize that disasters don't
wait for nice springtime days, but I suspicion that if the weather here were
spread to the entire country, the participation level of field day would
drop dramatically.
I do like to participate and get on from my home and make number of contacts
to support the guys that have gone to the effort to put on a real field day
station.
Bill W5VX
-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Felipe J Hernandez
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:15 PM
To: N7DF; cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] adding challenges to field day
There are not many if you run 1d, now trying to operate while handling
generators.
logging networks, turning antennas manually, the heat creating all kinds of
disconforts
you know where, the bugs bitting, people asking what are you doing?, people
asking to give them a chance to operate, people stuffing you with more
hotdogs your body can handle.
working guys calling you at 3 wpm and all those vhfers that only use the low
bands on FD.
dealing with the letrines, copying the dreaded arrl bulletin, working some
vhf/uhf/microwave.. OMG the list will never end..
After all that if you can run the very high rates of qsos of FD and not feel
challenged
then my friend you are superman!
on a serious note, FD is the only activity that will prepare you to OPERATE
under challenging conditions like a real disaster or a DXpedition, if you
ask me, "contest like" 1D's ruin the fun.
Felipe
----- Original Message -----
From: N7DF
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:13 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] adding challenges to field day
Field Day is fun but there are not really a lot of operating challenges to
it.
One way to liven things up would be to set some operating goals other than
just making the most contacts possible.
By giving point bonuses to various operating achievements things could be
made a lot more interesting.
Here are some ideas;
1 point for each ARRL Section and DX country worked per mode on each band.
100 bonus points would be awarded for a clean sweep
100 bonus points would be awarded for working 100 DX countries
73
Larry
N7DF
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