[CQ-Contest] Packet pile ups and MORE

[Sylvan Katz]

Tree and Fellow Contesters

> The genie is out of the bottle.
[snip]
> The last straw for me is that some contest sponsors think unassisted
> single ops should compete in the same category as assisted.  Like
> having a competition means anything then.

If you think that is amazing consider that the sponsors also believe that
the thousands, or perhaps tens of thousands of well designed and skillfully
operated single tower multiband setups (I call them the Peanut class station
for lack of a better term) are expected to compete in the same class as the
top guns station.

There use to be a day when a 'Peanut' class station could expect a fair
reward for mounting a dedicated single operator single band effort. Now
stations like VE6JY who use to enter the MM or MS category are now entering
the MSSB (multiple single operator single band) category. So for example on
15m VE6JY runs a stack of  four 6 element monobanders on a 145 foot tower. I
admire the skills and hard work the fellows at JY have dedicated to the
sport of amateur radio contesting - I am only questioning the inequity of
the CQ WW rules and using JY as an example.

If you consider 'assisted' versus 'unassisted' unfair would you also
consider 'multiband single tower' vs 'single band single tower' unfair
competition too?

cul ... sylvan

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Sylvan Katz
Saskatoon, Sask
VE5ZX & G0TZX






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