Perhaps folks tired of this rat race are looking for an alternative and are
moving south. It just may be one of the reasons Houston has become a "boom
town." My QTH 20 miles north of Houston was a cow pasture when I purchased
it back in 1977. Now I am surrounded with businesses and subdivisions. I
can only hope to hold out another 20 years or so before someone complains
about my antenna farm.
73, Keith NM5G
-----Original Message-----
From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Harold Mandel
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:34 AM
To: 'W0UN -- John Brosnahan'; amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] RE : who needs it? Henry 8K
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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