[CQ-Contest] Limited Antenna Height Category

[Scott Nichols]

How we're talking!!...The CQ WPX contests have the "TB-WIRES" category 
which allows (max) 1 tri-bander for the high bands (one feedline) and 
single element wire antennas for the low bands...That category, in my 
opinion, makes a whole lot of sense and encompasses the vast majority of 
casual, and many semi serious guys...I sometimes wonder why CQ doesn't 
expand this category to their other contests...Dump the "Assisted" 
categories and replace them with the TB-WIRES...That would be my 
vote...Antennas are everything as far as I'm concerned when you want to 
be heard and want to hear...I'd trade my amp and one of my MP's for a 
180' tower stacked with C31's ANYDAY...

73, Scott VE1OP

Richard DiDonna NN3W wrote:

>Why necessarily set certain height limits?  I know 
>plenty of folks out in California whose single antenna 
>would be a wire vertical that is shot 60 feet into the 
>top of a palm tree.
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>Perhaps a category that is limited to wire antennas 
>and no more than a three/four element tribander.
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>Rich NN3W
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