Al you asked:"" If for whatever reasons the only station you had available
to you was a QRP transceiver and a low dipole, would you still operate in
the SS? ""
To me, and I suspect many other die-hard SS participants, that is probably
one silly question.
Over my many years of SSCW contesting I've operated from big stations to my
present 100% P.O.S. station, and I've never lost the taste for SSCW. Last
year I did SSCW QRP from here. I barely run 100 watts and only have 2
aerials. One is an HFV2 for 80/40 DXing and the other is a 132 ft center fed
w/open wire apex at 50 ft. I'm an old guy who has some very serious medical
issues that keep me in bed a majority of the time.
My point is there is a magic to SSCW. It is a magic that says if you're
breathing you can get on SSCW. I no longer can spend hours in this chair at
a stretch but for the time I can sit here I can give out points and give my
club some points for its aggregate score. I will continue until they are
throwing dirt on my face. IMHO SSCW is the premier contesting event of the
contest season......
Best 73
MAL
N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
http://www.n7mal.com
Everyone in the world is
entitled to be burdened
by my opinion
----- Original Message -----
From: al_lorona@agilent.com
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 22:21
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Would You Still Contest?
Another marvelous SS CW has come and the usual post-contest flurry of
messages has begun, so here's my (completely serious) contribution:
If for whatever reasons the only station you had available to you was a QRP
transceiver and a low dipole, would you still operate in the SS?
I imagine-- but could be way off-- that once one has the taste of victory in
one's mouth from a superstation with all of the accoutrements, that falling
back to a spartan little pistol operation with llittle hope of doing any
damage is probably too little to capture one's interest.
In other words, you'd sit out the SS rather than subject yourself to the
challenge of Q power and cloud warmer.
Or maybe not? Is the thrill of the competition alone enough for the big
guns, or does there have to be some chance of doing substantial damage with
a large signal?
If your answer is, "No, thanks," what does that say about the
antenna-limited hams who, year after year, either voluntarily or by
necessity enter in the Q category?
Al W6LX
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