[CQ-Contest] When and why did rules change?

[Jon Ogden]

>
> Probably it's my own interpretation, but the TS original spirit was that
to
> start a category whose environment and antenna requirements weren't too
big
> to allow a large group of standard equipped Hams to compete between each
> other and not to be "squeezed" or "mixed" in other categories among the
much
> greater gain antennas or aerial setups.
> "Stretching" again rules and defining, i.e., complex or large wire
antennas
> like "undefined single wires" could be beyond the original TS aimings.
> No one else than contest organizers could say the final words about.

Correct, Mauri,

The beauty of the TS category is that it allows those of us with "standard"
antenna configurations to compete against each other.  Not everyone of us
can afford the real estate or towers to have stacked 4/4/4/4 antennas on
every band.   I was able to place 4th place in last year's SSB WPX in the
USA and win my call district in the TS class (as KE9NA).  I would not have
been able to do that when thrown in with all of the really big guns.  And
with the high scores in this year's contest I would have been even more SOL!
I wish more contests had categories for those of us with a typical station
who like to contest.

73,

Jon
NA9D


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