Driving and Contesting?
You are all invited to live and work in metropolitan New Jersey/New York.
That is, reside in New Jersey and commute to Manhattan and back every day.
Sleep as late as you can and get out there with the "wild bunch."
If you are a serious contester, get right in the passing lane and climb up
the guy
in front your bumper, like you're interested in marrying. Keep your high
beams
lit all the time. Them new HID, 9200K white H-5 types on your Beemers are
really contesting.
Follow less than 10 feet from the guy in front. At 75 to 80 MPH the guy
less than 10 feet from your back bumper is going to start flashing his HID's
so either tighten it up to 5 feet and terrorize the guy in front of you and
see if you can
get him to pull into the middle lane.
Make sure you have a double Taffe Latte Mocha with a shot of vanilla
caffeine
extract in the cup holder. Put your HF mobile in the console and scream at
some
DX while working your Bluetooth cellphone earpiece explaining to your boss
why you're
not there already, despite whatever time it might be.
Just like the old OO crowd watching for people Ø.000005Kc's out of the band
segment
New Jersey has unmarked "aggressive driver" police, so you either have to
blend in
with the rest of the "contesters" or you will be picked out. Don't make the
mistake
of giving the New Jersey wave when some yuppie-looking Beemer driver pulls
up alongside.
He's probably the plain clothes AD cop, because nobody looks at other
drivers but cops.
Hal
W4HBM
-----Original Message-----
From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of W0UN -- John Brosnahan
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:09 AM
To: amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] RE : who needs it? Henry 8K
At 06:03 AM 5/24/2006, R L Measures wrote:
>On May 23, 2006, at 12:38 PM, W0UN -- John Brosnahan wrote:
>
>>At 11:14 AM 5/23/2006, R L Measures wrote:
>>>Doug -- When I was occasionally running the Plywood Box 20db
>>>amplifier on 40m, and I was answering questions about it over the
>>>air, the FCC received a number of letters about me from
>>>complainants. Thanks to an FCC employee who happened to be a Ham who
>>>guest operated at multi-multi contest stations, I learned that the
>>>majority of these letters came from owners of contest stations whose
>>>amplifiers used tubes that had handles.
>>>- cheerz
>>
>>
>>Rich--
>>
>>This sounds like a cheap shot to me.
>
>It happened, John.
Rich--
I am not saying it didn't happen. What I AM saying is that your
comment makes it sound like contesters running tubes with handles
is rampant among the contest fraternity. And what I am saying is
that I have a pretty large, statistically-relevant sample, that contains
NO contesters running tubes with handles. And in fact all of the
BIG stations that I know are extremely diligent about running LEGAL
power. To do otherwise would be to totally devalue the effort made
to be competitive. It is my contention that winners win because
they are better operators -- you make it sound like winners cheat.
I can't say that no contester has ever cheated -- I don't KNOW that.
What I do know is that I have seen many stations and they are all
LEGAL.
>> I'm aware of (KC1XX, K1RX, K1TTT, W1KM, VY2ZM, W3LPL, K3LR, etc.) run
>> strictly legal.
>
>... and they never, ever drive faster than 65.00 mph on the Interstates.
This is a fallacious argument. Apples and oranges. CONTESTERS (as
opposed to those who might operate an occasional contest) are not in
it for the money (!) they are in it for the personal satisfaction and
recognition
of their skills. To cheat would be to devalue their own efforts.
And (BTW) the little road that runs past our property has no shoulders
and the lanes are barely wide enough for an RV trailer -- two oncoming
trailers tend to drop their outer wheels off the road to clear each other.
And the speed limit is 70 MPH! And what does this have to do with
contesting? Absolutely nothing, which is my point. Driving and contesting
are not related.
John W0UN
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