[CQ-Contest] Minimal SO2R -- is spacing enough?

[Bill Turner]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 23:06:53 -0500, Doug Smith W9WI wrote:

>It took less than $1 worth of parts to fix - and Icom has
>no minimum order for parts.  Very pleasant repair experience which will
>cause this previous Kenwood-head to look much closer at Icom in the future.)

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I had a mic element open up on my IC-730.  I lived close enough to ICOM
in Bellevue to go in for the replacement.  They rummaged around a bit,
found one and GAVE it to me.  Can't beat that.

Bill, W7TI


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>From Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x at kr6x.com  Sat Aug 11 17:00:14 2001
From: Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x at kr6x.com (Leigh S. Jones)
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 09:00:14 -0700
Subject: [CQ-Contest] How did these guys get to be so good?
References: <01C121D0.282C7180 at wnpgas04-p120.mts.net> <001301c12259$1066f0a0$8d603bd0 at j5u7j4> <005201c1226f$e9ce2500$3f502104 at vz.dsl.genuity.net>
Message-ID: <027501c1227e$b5c7fa10$ede3c23f at kr6x.org>


Bob, that's fine for you.  We all make personal choices as to how our
efforts are best spent.  You go ahead and "Listen to any of the cited
'experts'" and we'll go on passing along what we know to newcomers.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Naumann - N5NJ" <n5nj at gte.net>
To: <CQ-Contest at contesting.com>;
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How did these guys get to be so good?


>
> I think that this "mentoring" thing places the burden in the wrong
place.
> It's as though those who know, must teach those who don't.
>
> I disagree.
>
> I think those who desire to know something, need to do as much as
they can
> to learn about the subject.  Find out who knows what they're doing,
observe
> them doing it.  Contrast what they do to what you think you should
do and
> emulate what they do.
>
> If it doesn't work, ask a question.
>
> As anyone who has been on here more than a few days knows, if you
ask a
> question, you'll get a ton of answers.
>
> The part about what we do in contesting, is that we can observe all
of these
> really great operators in action on the air.
>
> Listen to any of the cited "experts" in a contest for a while.  Not
only
> will you be impressed, but you'll learn something.
>
> 73,
> Bob N5NJ
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> let's truncate this mess right here.


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