Mal is 100% correct on this one. (Hey, credit where credit is due!)
Any sort of restriction on D class entries will kill participation by those
who just want to get on the air and give out QSOs without really doing Field
Day.
I really don't understand why D stations can't work each other? Who cares?
And, what difference does it make? D class stations don't "compete" with the
"real" FD stations anyway. And, it's not a contest - right? No one wins
anything.
Why is this an issue?
Sheesh.
73,
Bob W5OV
-----Original Message-----
From: N7MAL [mailto:N7MAL@CITLINK.NET]
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:05 AM
To: Art Boyars; cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] FD observations and suggestion
Art you said: ""From my Observation #1, I suggest that Class D stations
should also not be allowed to solicit contacts ("call CQ", in the
vernacular). "" Why..??..
I worked over 500 non-'D' stations by calling CQ. Why would you penalize
those stations a contact point by not letting me call CQ. I can 100%
guarantee you I would never participate in FD if I only could S&P. I am 100%
in favor of not allowing 'D' stations working each other for points. I
wasted time working approx 30 'D' stations. I think that is more than a fair
trade-off for calling CQ as a 'D' station.
MAL
N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
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----- Original Message -----
From: Art Boyars
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 23:21
Subject: [CQ-Contest] FD observations and suggestion
As I suspect is true for many of us, Field Day was my first contest --
three 75W, xtal controlled, teen-aged Novices comprising the entire 15M CW
crew for W3RCN in 1961; 13 QSOs in 24 hours. ("FD is not a contest," you
and the ARRL say? So then why does the ARRL web site list the FD scores
under the "Contests" link?)
With family and work commitments, I have not operated FD in many years;
maybe since K1JX and I won the 1B-battery class around 1979 or '80 (N4BP
shattered our QSO total the next year). This year I decided to get on
spare-time from home "Class 1D" just to have some fun and to give the "real"
FD stations some contacts. (And it was sort of a FD operation. One of the
antenna support ropes broke while I was out of town during the week, and I
fixed it late Friday afternoon.)
Observation #1: I was not alone. There were many people in Class D, many
of them calling CQ FD. Even I called CQ for a few minutes until: a) I kept
getting answered by zero-point Class D stations; b) I decided that it was
"against the spirit of Field Day" for Class D to call CQ. (Note also that
if you are S&P in Class D, you do not know the CQer is Class D until you
work him.)
Observation #2: My signal is just as weak in FD as in SS. (Does that
mean I fixed the antenna properly?)
Observation #3. Phone still stinks. (That's not the word K3IU and I used
at a PVRC meeting many years ago, but it will do for a family reflector.)
Observation #4: FD is, indeed, a great opportunity to help operators
increase their skills. Especially the moderately loud one I worked on
40SSB:
"Roger and thank you and 73's ... uhhh ... QRZed Field Day from WnYZQ,
Whiskey Number n Yellow Ziggurat Quoit... Field Day QRZed."
Me (in a little pile-up): "Kaay Thrreee Killooowwattt Uuuniitted"
Them: "Uhhh K 3 Kilowatt United??"
Me: "Roger! K 3 Kilowatt United!"
Them: "OK... K 3 Kilowatt United." [Then, ... silence. What?? They
want me to go first?!?! OK.]
Me: "Number Onnne Delllta in Maarryylaand"
Them: "Roger the 1 Delta in Maryland. We're number nA in xxxx.... nA in
xxxx. QSL??"
Me: "QSL, thank you!"
Them: "Roger and thank you and 73's ... uhhh ... QRZed Field Day ...."
And on and on. They were running people, but for every QSO they had the
answering station go first. What a teaching opportunity!
And finally, my suggestion: The Rules already say that Class D stations
do not get credit for working each other. I think the intent is to maintain
the "emergency exercise" spirit of FD, and I agree. From my Observation #1,
I suggest that Class D stations should also not be allowed to solicit
contacts ("call CQ", in the vernacular). Even beyond maintaining the spirit
of FD, I think that without this rule change, a few dozen big Class D
operations could turn FD into their own NAQP, just without the multipliers.
What do you think?
73, Art K3KU
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