I am 80 and am not in the class of the big guns even though I have a full
legal limit station. I don't feel the need for an overlay to point to my
age as my excuse for not scoring higher. Instead, I would like to see an
overlay of just wires. The current overlay combines wires with tribanders.
Tribanders have a great advantage over wires -- they can rotate. A couple
of the European contests are starting to have a wires-only category. I
would like to see some of our ARRL, CQ and NAQP contests do the same.
Stan, K4SBZ
"Real radio bounces off the sky."
On Dec 4, 2023, at 9:06 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm skeptical about that, Mike - my peak time spent in a contest was CQWW
back on the early 2000s, at about 37 hours. I have trouble doing half that
now - not the way to win, even if I had a station like I did then.
73, Pete N4ZR
On 12/3/2023 10:33 PM, Mike Ritz wrote:
Most of the best and well known contesters in the US are probably in their
70’s and 80’s now. Just about everybody would qualify for the overlay…
73;
Mike
W7VO
Sent from my iPhone, utilizing a very tiny keyboard fed from very fat
fingers
On Dec 3, 2023, at 7:10 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR<pete.n4zr@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm 82, been contesting since the 1954 SS, and really don't much care
about a oldster overlay. I get my kicks from the process of making lots of
Qs for however long I can, and contributing them to my club's score
73, Pete N4ZR
On 12/3/2023 3:48 PM,w1rm@comcast.net wrote:
I know we have overlay categories for all sorts of things and that's great.
But, I'd like to suggest just one more. For those of us who have been in
the game for a very long time, it's hard to compete. Not impossible, mind
you. K1ZZ has been at it for 60 years and he can hold with the very best.
But, there are others who are in their sunset years who's getup and go has
gotten up and went and yet we still get in and do the best we can.
My very first contest effort was in 1957 in the Novice Roundup as KN2UTV.
I
didn't do any more contesting until 1964 when I was working at ARRL HQ and
Ellen White offered a trophy for the top HQ score in CW SS.
Any thoughts about recognizing the real seniors in the game?
Pete Chamalian, W1RM
W1RM@Comcast.net
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