Hans,
Type A personalities go with the territory.
During my current 'adventure' it is painful for me to enter a contest
knowing that I can't operate more than about 30 minutes per go and maybe a
total of 2 hours. All in the head I know, but still "bothersome".
That said, as you know from a couple of the ARRL Board Meetings you
attended, regular declamation that Field Day was an "Operating Event" was
made by various Board attendees. But everyone knew it would be viewed as a
Contest by those who wanted to think that and as an Operating Event by
others and an Emergency Preparedness Event by some and a Social Event by a
large contingent.
This is one of those cases where everyone is "right" .
73, Tod, K0TO
On 5/17/13 2:06 PM, "Radio K0HB" <kzerohb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can we leave our "Type A" personalities at home on field day? It should be
> a fun outing for clubs, and the "record" ought to be held by those who had
> the most fun.
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Ritz, W7VO
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 5:09 PM
> To: CQ Contest
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Field Day Rules Change(s)
>
> What happened to "Field Day is not a contest"? ;-)
>
> 73;
>
> Mike, W7VO
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve London" <n2icarrl@gmail.com>
> To: "CQ Contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 6:38:34 AM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Field Day Rules Change(s)
>
> This one raised my eyebrow in the 2013 Field Day rules:
>
> "The use of switching systems that allow for lockout in order to use
> multiple transmitters (i.e., an ?octopus?) in an attempt to enter a
> lower-number-of-transmitters class are prohibited (i.e. using 2
> transmitters that can transmit simultaneously, with two operators, and a
> lock-out system and entering class 1A)."
>
> This is exactly how the K6AM team set the current 1A record in 2011.
> Maybe a participant in the W1NVT 2011 2A record can let us know if they
> used this technique in 2011.
>
> FYI, here's what the previous year's rules said about this:
>
> 2011 said nothing.
> 2012 said "Switching and simulcasting devices are prohibited."
>
> Personally, I don't like rules changes that lock in records in
> perpetuity. With this change, I conjecture that the current 1A and 2A
> records are unbreakable.
>
> 1A K6AM 2011 SPAWAR Team 3610 QSO's 11134 points
> 2A W1NVT 2011 Radio Assn of Northern VT 5467 QSO's 16320 points
>
> 73,
> Steve, N2IC
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