[CQ-Contest] politically correct

[Tom Horton]

Ron,
  I agree with you.
What I was getting at is that apparently some folks think that
if you are not a big gun and don't get over 1000 prefixes in
  the WPX contest, then you are not a serious contester.
I've been contesting probably as long as most anyone on this
reflector and a heck of a lot more than most that are here.
No, I have never won a big contest nationally , but I do and have
won my section several times over the years. I've placed in the
Top Ten in a few. So to intimate that, since I only got 523 prefixes
last weekend,  I am not a serious contester I really don't
think is accurate.
That's all I was saying.
73, Tom K5IID




At 12:54 04/03/02 -0500, Ron Notarius WN3VAW wrote:
>Tom,
>
>I'm not sure where you're coming from.  When I say that I'm not "serious" in
>a contest, that only means that I'm out there to hand out Q's, usually S&P,
>for the benefit of other operators.  It's a recognition that my interest in
>a high score in that particular contest isn't there, for whatever reason.
>Maybe my equipment's not up to snuff due to my location.  But usually it's
>because I have limited time to devote to that particular contest due to
>time, work, family, or other neccesary tasks & obligations.
>
>A contest I'll take "seriously" is one where I am planning a strategy in an
>effort to place highly or even win.  For example, I put a "serious" effort
>into ARRL DX Phone this year and did very well for myself.  Most years I put
>a "serious" effort into the PA QSO Party, either for myself and/or my
>club -- I've helped out a lot behind the scenes the last few years with the
>club efforts and we're getting some really good contesters out of the
>effort.  And so on.
>
>So saying that I'm not "serious" is not by any means belittling nor should
>it be interpreted as such.  It's just an indication of how hard I worked at
>it.  I sure wish I could put a serious effort into most of the major
>contests, it's just not possible right now.
>
>73, ron wn3vaw
>
>"Why, he's no fun, he fell right over."
>
>-- The Firesign Theatre
>
>----- Original Message -----
>Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 00:51:47 +0000
>To: cq-contest at contesting.com
>From: Tom Horton <k5iid at ntelos.net>
>Subject: [CQ-Contest] politically correct
>
>Gosh guys, just because I don't have multiple towers, antennas, rigs,
>and/or the money to buy them doesn't mean that I am not a serious
>contester. Even in the WPX. I love this "sport" and will keep doing it
>till I can't do it anymore.
>But the question I have always wondered is, is everybody is running,
>how are you getting the Q's.
>   I made possibly 15 Q's this wekend via "running", it was more like a
>very slow walk, and I wound up with over 1k Q's and 1.3 million points.
>So you should thank us S&P ops and not belittle them(us) by intimating
>that we are not serious ops. Absolutely we are serious, and if we weren't
>you would have much fewer Q's in the log.
>Some people drive Porsches and some of us drive Fords or whatever.
>That doesn't mean we can't get to work on time.
>73, Tom K5IID
>
>
>
>
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