It took many adventurers and some broken rules to achieve the status this
nation enjoys today. Without those risk takers, who knows where we'd be. If
my neighbor wants to make serious suds, let it be, AS LONG AS IT DOESN'T
HURT ANYONE. Gives me the initiative to improve my antenna farm just to
prove I can outdo his suds with a new antenna design. By the way, I have an
amp with a tube that has handles. It's parked in the corner of the garage.
The fun of it was in the design and the building of the amp and not the
running of excessive power. Someone told me that if I had the capability to
exceed legal limit that I was already doing it and would continue to exceed
that limit. HOGWASH! I just like warming the dummy load up with the big suds
once in a while. If for any reason those suds are need in an emergency, I've
got um'.
As far as contesters go, I don't approve of cheating in any way form or
fashion. I'm of the opinion that not all contesters are on the up and up and
have heard stories supporting my claim.
Regards,
Larry N5BIP
-----Original Message-----
From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of R L Measures
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 11:40 AM
To: W0UN -- John Brosnahan
Cc: amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] RE : who needs it? Henry 8K
On May 24, 2006, at 6:08 AM, W0UN -- John Brosnahan wrote:
> 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.
Not rampant, extant. Newington is not unaware of this.
> 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.
Some have a remote-controlled big one put of sight in the garage and
some don't. Some rubber-clock and some don't.
> 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.
Surely. And most holy men aren't attracted to the South end of altar-
boys heading North.
>
>>> 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.
Is it not fallacious to assert that all, or nearly all contesters are
noble men without sin?
> Apples and oranges.
Granted. Speeding causes death, running serious suds seldom does.
> 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.
Bingo. Satisfaction from recognition and attention, one of the
prime motivators for humanoids. Drive a thirsty 400hp luxury SUV and
you buy attention and recognition from most folks. The History
Channel recently had a segment on John Leonard Orr, the Glendale Fire
Department's arson investigator who got satisfaction from setting
fires using one cigarette, 3-matches, and a rubber-band. The
motive: attention and recognition, the things he never got from his
parents when he was a child. Orr killed 5. including a 2-yr old boy.
> of their skills. To cheat would be to devalue their own efforts.
Some people see getting away with something as proof of their skill.
John Orr was an example.
>
> 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!
damn
> And what does this have to do with
> contesting? Absolutely nothing, which is my point. Driving and
> contesting
> are not related.
The common denominator is homo sapiens. As I see it, Forrest Gump
("shit happens) and Puck ("what fools these mortals be") nailed it down
cheers, John.
>
> John W0UN
>
>
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