[CQ-Contest] Here we go again

[Russell Hill]

Joe, you echo my argument I circulated on Friday about tower height, and you 
have probably stated it better than I.  Thank you for supporting the 
viewpoint.  If we can get enough serious contesters to consider the idea, 
maybe we can get some admittedly arbitrary height limitation which will 
encourage the little pistols to improve their low antenna station, knowing 
they will not always be blown out by someone with 200' towers and 
multi-stacks in the "same category".  If we categorize on the basis of 
number of ops, number of transmitters, and power out, why do we not 
recognize that the capability to put up antennas of the "giant" variety are 
a major determinant of a station's ability to compete?

I would like very much to see a discussion started.  I think this is the 
only way we can get increased participation on a large scale.

73, Rusty, na5tr


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Subich, K4IK" <k4ik at subich.com>
To: "'ak0a'" <ak0a at kc.rr.com>; <dezrat1242 at ispwest.com>
Cc: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 10:12 AM
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] Here we go again


>
>> From:  ak0a
>>
>> I agree with you Bill. the only people who are against this
>> are the SO2R ops. Why? I cant figure out. What are they scared of?
>
> You are 100% dead wrong ... I do not do SO2R but have absolutely
> no problem understanding that a better equipped station with a
> more proficient operator might choose to have a second rig on one
> band looking for mults, checking propagation, etc. while running on
> a different band.  It has been that way for at least the nearly 30
> years that I have been around the contest game and only for the
> last few of those years has the chorus been "discriminate against
> the elite stations!"
>
> If you are arguing for separate categories, then a separate category
> for towers over 22 meters and multiple antennas per band should be
> implemented long before a separate category for SO2R.
>
> In truth, competing against the big antenna stations is far more
> frustrating to the bulk of the "vertical and wires or A3 on the roof"
> stations than competing against someone with a trap vertical
> connected to the second receiver input on his FT-1000D or a "Windom"
> in a tree connected to an older [second] transceiver.  A station can
> gain far more by improving antennas than can ever be gained by adding
> SO2R.  Only when one has optimized the antenna system does SO2R add
> significantly to the score.
>
> 73,
>
>   ... Joe, K4IK
>
>
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