[CQ-Contest] Old SS Battles

[Ron Notarius WN3VAW]

Who needs to shout anymore?

What you need is someone with a naturally loud voice.  Much less stress on
the vocal cords, and it doesn't hurt that he can make QSO's with the locals
without need of a radio...

But I'm sorry to say, you'll have to dig up your own individual.  My club is
lucky enough to have one such, but Ed N3ZNI is ours and you can't have him!

73, ron wn3vaw

"What's the point in being crazy if you can't have a little fun with it?"
-- Russell Crowe portraying John Nash, "A Beautiful Mind"

----- Original Message -----
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:12:22 -0000
From: "Rex Maner" <k7qq at netzero.net>
To: "CQ-CONTEST" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Old SS Battles

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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