Hello All:
First of all, in regards to the WAE having two types of listings
for S/O whether they used packet or not and whether that keeps
people from participating. If you chose not to operate this contest
then you are missing one of the best summer events that has many
challenges that can improve your operating skills. Furthermore the
contest is an excellent forum to test out your station before CQ WW.
>From the 2002 results, here are the number of callsigns active in the
WAE DX Contest: CW 5,385 SSB 12,969
Pretty good numbers for contests held in August and Sept!
Second, the results do show who used packet and who didn't.
>> The use of DX spotting nets is allowed in all categories.
>> Single Operator stations which claim to not use spotting nets
>> will be marked with the special symbol "-" in the final results.
>England
>M?SDX 893,510 751 1239 449
>G3TXF 862,524 600 1146 494
>G3SQX- 320,720 464 591 304
>G4BUO- 170,183 379 310 247
>G3JJG- 31,020 165 0 188
You can clearly see that G3SQX was the non-packet winner in England
in this listing. http://www.darc.de/referate/dx/fedcw2.htm
And lastly, it's just like the debate about who was going to be selected
for the WRTC. Only so many stations are going to be "winners" of
their categories. So either you get on for the fun of it or you get on
in order to be one of the few "winners". If you are getting on for the
fun of it then packet can increase your level of enjoyment. If you are
getting on to be a "winner" you should be running stations and not
chasing packet spots anyways. What's the big deal with having the
packet on in the background?
We ALL can't be winners. If only the winners got on the air then
it would be a *** really *** short contest!
BECOME RADIO-ACTIVE!
CQ CONTEST!
73, Eric K9GY
WAE CW 2003 - August 9/10
WAE SSB 2003 - Sept 13/14
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