Re: [CQ-Contest] Limited Antenna Height Category

["Russell Hill" <rustyhill@earthlink.net>]

The reason I prefer to simply set a height limitation for the category is 
that the TB/Wires makes no allowance for a monobander at 24 feet, which was 
my antenna for several years.  In TB/Wires I would have been thrown in with 
the 200 foot stacked antenna set.

With a simple height definition, the op could decide for himself what 
configuration of antennas he wanted.  If he wanted to make a splash on 80, 
he might chose to put up a 3-el 80M monobander at 48'. (Hmmmm)

Rusty


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Nichols" <snichols@mvosprey.com>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Limited Antenna Height Category


> How we're talking!!...The CQ WPX contests have the "TB-WIRES" category 
> which allows (max) 1 tri-bander for the high bands (one feedline) and 
> single element wire antennas for the low bands...That category, in my 
> opinion, makes a whole lot of sense and encompasses the vast majority of 
> casual, and many semi serious guys...I sometimes wonder why CQ doesn't 
> expand this category to their other contests...Dump the "Assisted" 
> categories and replace them with the TB-WIRES...That would be my 
> vote...Antennas are everything as far as I'm concerned when you want to be 
> heard and want to hear...I'd trade my amp and one of my MP's for a 180' 
> tower stacked with C31's ANYDAY...
>
> 73, Scott VE1OP
>
> Richard DiDonna NN3W wrote:
>
> > Why necessarily set certain height limits?  I know plenty of folks out in 
> > California whose single antenna would be a wire vertical that is shot 60 
> > feet into the top of a palm tree.
> >
> > Perhaps a category that is limited to wire antennas and no more than a 
> > three/four element tribander.
> >
> > Rich NN3W
>
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