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Answering my own question, I dug up a thread on cq-contesting back in 2000
that makes it looks like submitting as TB-WIRES should be OK. From Jim, AD1C:
>According to Steve N8BJQ you don't even need the tribander.
>I *almost* won in 1998 CQ WPX SSB using a G5RV dipole (80-10) 35' (10M)
>high and a R7 vertical (used mostly on 15). Since I had *less* than the
>rules specified, it was OK. And if I hadn't gotten frustrated Sat.
>afternoon on 20 and took a long break, I probably could have won. You can
>read about it in CQ Contest! magazine from a year or so ago."
And from Jon Ogden AD9D:
>I think we are reading too much into the rules and technical operations of
>the antennas. The rules are quite simple:
>
>1.) The antenna on 10,15 and 20 meters must be either a tri-band sort of
>beam or quad WITH A SINGLE FEEDLINE or it can be a single element antenna
>such as a dipole or vertical.
>
>2.) The "single" element or "wire" element antennas are just that. There
>are single radiating elements on each band. So having seperate dipoles or
>seperate verticals for each band is within the rules. A V-beam is a
>multi-wavelength antenna - NOT a multi-element antenna. Same thing with a
>Rhombic antenna, IMHO. You basically have one antenna with one set of
>wires. V-beams and Rhombics fit that category. I would even go so far as
>to say that having a seperate receive antenna of a single element (one
>beverage for example) would be OK. Now I am not sure on this as I don't
>have the rules in front of me, but I don't think they require you to use the
>same antenna for transmit and receive as long as both are comprised of one
>wire element.
If these guys are right, my vertical + single-wire antenna qualifies for the
TS category. Comments (or am I just getting too persnickety?)
Ben
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