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Re: [CQ-Contest] Chiming in -- SO2R

To: "Steve Root" <steve.root@culligan4water.com>,<cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Chiming in -- SO2R
From: "Russell Hill" <rustyhill@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:35:33 -0600
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I agree with Steve 100%. I don't believe I have said it as well.

My suggestion to set up a category defined by antenna height is an attempt to have a clear and simple way to classify what Steve has called a "small station".

Regardless of what other equipment, a station with a 100 ft tower would never be a small station-- folks don't spend that kind of money and effort in order to be "King of the Water Pistols". King of QRP or King of LP, maybe, but the intention is to be a big dog in whatever category.

Regardless of what other equipment, a station with a 40 ft tower will never become a big dog, not at HF, anyway.

My suggestion of a 50 ft dividing line is arbitrary and open to discussion.

But remembering my relative success with a 55 ft high 8-el monobander in the last 10M contest I operated, I do believe any dividing line higher than 50 ft would be too high, and perhaps it should be 40 or 45 ft.

But whatever the dividing line is, I firmly believe there should be some dividing line for the Water Pistols.

Thanks, Steve.

Rusty, na5tr


----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Root" <steve.root@culligan4water.com>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Chiming in -- SO2R



>
I notice in all your correspondence that you are focused on winning.
I am focused on competition.  A casual reader might think that's the
same thing, but it isn't quite.

A subtle but important distinction.

--
Bill W6WRT



True, but I agree with Ward N0AX that the issue here is recognition. While
QST did us a great disservice by curtailing their contest coverage, the Web
reporting has allowed vastly improved regional coverage. In my opinion
that's a great help. We can debate operator skill vs. location vs. hardware
forever and never get to a consensus but I think we can all agree that we
need to encourage the casual operator. We need to mentor and assist new
contestors, and that all of the contest recognition shouldn't fall to the
same few people every time.


It's very hard for a great operator with a small station in a poor
geograhical location to be recognized as such. The solution here isn't to
penalize those who have invested enormous time and energy into building a
big station or those who have learned how to operate 2 radios. The solution
is to develop a way to reward those efforts that may not end up in the Top
Ten box every year.


73 Steve K0SR


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