[CQ-Contest] NAQP-a different view

[Ray Rocker]

W5XD wrote:
> Or I run one of those fancy two-receive boxes that
> can hear simultaneous with transmit. What category am I in?

That's about as convincing an argument as I've heard against 
the one-radio-two-radio split. Heck, that even kills my idea 
to have another column in the results with a 1 or a 2 in it. 
'Tis no matter, because if you lurk enough here and on the
3830 reflector, you pretty much know who runs two radios.
They like to brag, and/or proclaim that one-radio-only 
categories are pure heresy. :-)

My advice to the one-radio crowd (myself included) is to keep 
plugging. Give it your best shot every time and worry most about
beating your own past scores, because there will always be someone
with more $$$ than you. Unless you're Bill Gates, and he's not
a contester. One of these days the Propagation God(desse)s might 
smile on you. I still get all tingly when I look at the results 
of the Internet Sprint where I finished #2, one QSO behind N6TR, 
from my station where the antenna farm is one beat up old Alpha 
Delta DX-CC tied up in the pine trees with baling twine. That was
fun. One of these days I will bribe AD5Q to predict that 20 meters
will be open all month from everywhere to South Mississippi and 
nowhere else, because he is generally correct in these matters.

Now, on the subject of categories, I will grump about the dearth
of Multi-Single LOW POWER categories. I do a lot of multiopping
these days and I just prefer leaving the amp OFF. But there's 
never a category for that. Grump, grump. There. 

Though, I don't know why I'm wasting my time grumping when there
is a message in my email titled "Subliminally Seduce Women Instantly".
Surely I have my priorities screwed up.

-- Ray  WQ5L  rocker at datasync.com


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