[CQ-Contest] Old SS Battles

[Rex Maner]

It sure appears to the Quack that the competition is rather tough today as
with the Chirp and others,  I think that some of the SCREAMING came from
their intro to phone operation came from their first rig being a DX-40 or
DX-60  with screen grid modulators.

Chip's first win of SS Phone was from my station with a combination of mono
banders  3 el 20, 3 el 15 and 3 el 10 on a 60 foot tower all stacked Xmas
tree fasion 3 ft apart on a Tacoma city lot 50 ft wide.  80/40 was a combo
inverted Vee underneath those .

There is a lot more to this story however I won't go there now.

Quack   aka  Rex



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr at contesting.com>
To: "David A. Pruett" <k8cc at comcast.net>; "Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x at kr6x.com>;
<CQ-Contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 03:50
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Old SS Battles


> At 07:03 PM 11/19/03 -0500, David A. Pruett wrote:
> >I wish we'd see some battles like this again.  Admittedly, it takes the
> >right combination of motivated ops combined with big stations, with a
dose
> >of die-hard competition tempered with sportsmanship and comraderie.
>
>
>
> >With a nod to Peter, Paul, and Mary - "Where have all the competitor's
gone?"
>
>
> Gee, I think WP3R (KE3Q), KH7X (KH6ND), K5TR, WB0O, K4XS and a host of
> others would answer, "We're here."  These are just the top 5 from last
> year's phone SS, all with scores over 320K. In my 40 years in SS (so far),
> I think the competition for the top spots has never been tougher.  The
fact
> that screaming has gone out of vogue doesn't mean they don't try just as
hard.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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