Hi guys, my contesting time is very limited.
I work portable and it takes me on average 4 hours to put my station together
for a contest. That's after leaving the office early, loading the car and
driving to my contest location.
So for me, it has to be a contest I feel I stand a chance of getting near the
top of the scores.
Not owning an amp I enter LP.
If I am going to be competing with stations that are running HP then my chances
are greatly reduced.
In years gone by when I had my own station at home I would enter as many as I
could regardless but now I'm a lot more restricted.
A contest without an LP category !! Not likely I will take part.
Just my 2p worth
Robb
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GU0URR
Robb Webb Photography
Bringing Photography to life
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> On 19 Oct 2016, at 14:10, Barry Murrell ZS2EZ <zs2ez@zs2ez.co.za> wrote:
>
> Hi John and all concerned
>
> I have an issue with this logic : Take for example my situation - South
> Africa now has a Maximum Power level of 1KW... my amplifier (max 600W) has
> packed up, and unless someone with WAY more knowledge than I have can fix it
> (Not very likely in my location)I will be running Low Power for the
> foreseeable future (there is simply NO WAY that I can afford another
> amplifier, I would LOVE a new solid-state amp but at our exchange rate it
> would cost me a year's income, if I gave up paying bills and didn't eat!!).
> Thus I must now compete DIRECTLY against others running 10x my power....
> what is the point??
>
> My contesting for 2017 was already going to be limited to a selected handful
> of events - I have now scratched the BARTG events off my list as being
> impractical for me.
>
> 73 de BARRY MURRELL ZS2EZ
> KF26ta - Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of John Barber
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 October 2016 2:43 PM
> To: 'Julio VE3FH' <ve3fh@yahoo.ca>; rtty@contesting.com
> Cc: Ian GM4KLN <ian@gm4kln.co.uk>; G3LDI Roger Cooke <roger@g3ldi.co.uk>;
> 'Simone Wilson' <m0box@btinternet.com>; Andrew G8GNI
> <g8gni.m5aex@gmail.com>; plummerc42@hotmail.com; bartg@bartg.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] PLEASE operate in the MAKROTHEN RTTY contest
> thisweekend!
>
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