I use the analogy of Tampa Stadium filled up on Friday night with 70,000
people from all over the world who are going to be there for 48 hours.
I explain that they will all participate in this "contest" where they have to
get a person's name and his state or country he is from. They must copy and
record this on a computer or a PDA. Their final score will be the amount of
people they get exchanges from multiplied by the amount of states and countries
they copy down.
I then ask them to tell me what they think would be an asset in this contest.
Answers include tenacity, a booming, big voice, stamina, ability to
recognize accents from different parts of the world etc. I then tie in the
similarities of the "Tampa Stadium Contest" with SS or CQWW.
I think they get a pretty good idea from this explanation. They still may
think it's kind of strange but at least they understand.
Bill K4XS
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