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On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:51:11 -0700 (PDT), Jim Reisert AD1C
<jjreisert@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>If you have the ability, and can effectively operate two or more radios at a
>time, and NEVER transmit two signals at the same time, and your score is higher
>than the person who has only one radio, then you deserve to win (and the SO1R
>operator deserves to lose).
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That argument could also be applied to HP vs LP and would be equally
fallacious.
If a piece of hardware gives a significant advantage to a station,
like an amplifier does, the contest sponsors should recognize it and
create a class for that hardware, just as they have done for
HP/LP/QRP.
Not everybody wants to purchase and use an amplifier; not everybody
wants to purchase and use a second radio. But they all want to have
fun.
Contesting is fun when it is COMPETITIVE. As I have pointed out
before, NFL teams do not play high school teams, go-karts do not race
Indy cars and lightweights do not box heavyweights. Yet each class has
its fans and supporters and they love them because they are
COMPETITIVE within the class, not between classes.
Contest sponsors should revise the rules to reflect what is happening
with today's contest scene.
Bill W6WRT
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