[CQ-Contest] Consider This -TLAs

Wed Apr 24 05:19:08 EDT 2002

I think I must disagree, although only slightly. TLA stands for three letter 
"acronym", not abbreviation. And SO2R, while effectively a TLA, is truly a 
AN4T - an alpha numeric 4-tuple, which is *far* more powerful.

And the FQP doesn't truly recognize the effects of true-north, just magnetic 
north. Thats why they don't have a seperate category for Florida natives.

Man its a long time till WPX CW (soryy Jim, I'll be away from home for the 
Freestyle QSO Party!)

73
Ted, ex-KR1G (I think)

>From: "Leigh S. Jones, KR6X" <kr6x at kr6x.com>
>To: "cq-contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Consider This
>Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:48:43 -0700
>
>In the world of computers the ubiquitous use of "TLA's" has
>been dominating the ideology of descriptive language for
>many years.  Of course, "TLA's" stands for "three letter
>abbreviations".  The theory goes like this: if something isn't
>important enough to be abbreviated until only the people to
>which it is important can understand it, then it's insignificant.
>
>Having personally pioneered the use of two transceivers at
>W6HX over 30 years ago (no, I don't pretend to have been
>the first contester to do this, only that I wandered into the
>frontier unassisted), I knew when the TLA "SO2R" came
>into widespread use that numerous competitors who had
>previously considered the practice insignificant would
>henceforth and forever after see "SO2R" as being somehow
>fundamentally different from single transceiver operation.
>
>Oh, yes, I realize that "SO2R" isn't 3 letters, it's 3 letters and
>a number.  Right.  Sure, I'll be getting flamed on the list for
>that.  But many "TLA's" aren't really three letters.  Consider
>"MM" for "multi-operator, multi-transmitter",  "MOST" or
>"MS" for "multi-operator, single transmitter", and "M2" for
>"multi-operator two transmitter".  Those are categories, aren't
>they?
>
>It's funny that the more important issues in the competitive
>position that contesters can attain aren't given the important
>attention that they deserve.  Oh, sure, one contest now has
>a tribander and dipoles category that you can actually enter,
>and there is even a category for inexperienced operators
>somewhere in the immense structure for contests.  But these
>divisions in the contest world can never separate us quite
>adequately until we have "TLA's" for each of them.  I'm
>sure that everyone will agree that we need some additional
>"TLA's" to describe every facet of top notch competition
>that separates us from reaching the top rungs of the contest.
>Both the "good" and the "bad" issues require "TLA's".
>
>For instance:
>
>W5WMU's station has numerous towers.  While most of
>the operators in the November SS have dipoles on 40 and
>80 meters, they often don't realize that a station like
>W5WMU can have upwards of 6 full sized 40 meter beams
>of 3 elements or greater - two stacked 3 elements pointed
>at the Eastern seaboard, two pointed at the mid-west, and
>two pointed at California.  And, with one of the world's top
>CW operators (N6TR) running SO2R you'd think a station
>like that would always come out on top.
>
>But NO!
>
>WP3R always comes out on top.  We need a "TLA" and a
>separate entry category for WP3R.  I'm going to suggest
>"WP3R".
>
>Here are a few more suggestions, and I hope I'm not the
>only guy on the reflector who has ideas on this matter:
>
>PN - Pencil Nightmare - enters every contest without
>      computer logging
>PPC - Pirate's his Packet Callsign - Why do guys log
>      onto the internet/packet spotting nets with an inactive
>      operator's call during contests instead of their own?
>TBD - Tri-Bander and Dipole?  No! Tower Blew Down!
>SSF - Single Sideband Filter only, no narrow CW filter
>OF2R - Occupies run Frequency silently while chasing
>      multipliers on the second station - this can be a single
>      operator or a multi-operator multi-transmitter habit
>HC - Happy Camper - MM station who, at 0000z, starts
>      calling "CQ contest" on 21,251 USB with 4 stacked
>      7 element yagis pointing at Europe and remains there
>      continuously for the next 48 hours.  Implies OF2R.
>TMC - Too Many Computers - No, these are the
>      neighbor's computers and television sets that put out
>      terrible RF radiation on all bands
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Randy Thompson, K5ZD" <k5zd at charter.net>
>To: "Richard Zalewski" <w7zr at citlink.net>; "cq-contest"
><cq-contest at contesting.com>
>Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 18:20
>Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] Consider This
>
>
> > I suspect if NV4X was SO1R he would have *only* had about 2800 x 950 for
> > 7.0M...
> >
> > More variables here than you can see in the score listings.
> >
> > Randy, K5ZD
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cq-contest-admin at contesting.com
> > > [mailto:cq-contest-admin at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Richard Zalewski
> > > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 17:38 PM
> > > To: cq-contest
> > > Subject: [CQ-Contest] Consider This
> > >
> > >
> > > How about considering this regarding SO2R as a separate class.
> > >
> > > Most recent WPX SSB
> > >
> > > SO AB (A) HP
> > >
> > > NV4X    2880 Q  960 PFX  33 HRS  7.58M
> > > WZ7ZR 1836 Q  749 PFX  32 HRS  2.78M
> > >
> > > Not to take a thing away from K4MA as the operator at NV4X or the
> > > fact that
> > > he is East Coast but come on....you can't keep telling me that
> > > SO2R is not a
> > > separate classification.
> > >
> > > I sure would like to see more analysis of this type where SO2R in
> > > a current
> > > class is compared to SO1R in the same class.  I would do it but
> > > unfortunetly
> > > I only saved the SO (A) AB HP posts.
> > >
> > > Dick W7ZR
> > >
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