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Re: [CQ-Contest] Past Prediction of the Future of Contesting.

To: "aa4lr@arrl.net" <aa4lr@arrl.net>, "nj8j@benshome.net" <nj8j@benshome.net>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Past Prediction of the Future of Contesting.
From: AB1J via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Reply-to: ktfrog007@aol.com
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 18:59:39 +0000 (UTC)
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Well, there are other similarly equipped stations out there competing with you. 

I'll bet you don't have to wait in line too long.

73,
Ken, AB1J


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Coleman <aa4lr@arrl.net>
To: Ben Coleman NJ8J <nj8j@benshome.net>
Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Wed, Aug 25, 2021 4:41 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Past Prediction of the Future of Contesting.

That was always my experience, even at the well-equipped station of NQ4I 
running full legal power and great antennas. You don’t always break through the 
pileups first.

> On Aug 24, 2021, at 5:56 PM, Ben Coleman NJ8J <nj8j@benshome.net> wrote:
> 
> Given that there's going to be many people with the same idea in mind, I 
> question that you can depend on 'knocking off stations instantly'.  You may 
> very well click on the band map and find you're fighting to compete with a 
> pileup of stations trying to do the same thing you are.  And if you're a 
> little pistol, you can find yourself clicking from pileup to pileup that you 
> can't easily break.

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Web: http://boringhamradiopart.blogspot.com
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901

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