[CQ-Contest] Operating Methods or Equipment?

[Buck - N4PGW]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> 
> Discouraging, ain't it?  Well, take heart, there is room for major
> improvements in your future scores, but not in his...  Power helps, but
> look at the scores of the QRP guys, and you will see that antennas,
> operator experience (skill), and the old realtors cry of , "location,
> location, location", play the bigger role...
> 
> 
> I put in a part time effort in CQWW as a single band, 80 CW, LP (about 60
> watts at the antenna after a 500 foot coax run to get to a field to put up
> an antenna), and worked roughly 40 countries... No beams, but some
> vertical wires and a dipole did the work... There are tons of stations
> that beat my modest effort... I don't feel I am missing anything... I am
> not a hot shot contest operator but I have fun... If you can't improve
> your antennas then find a local ham who has the antennas, or the room, and
> wants someone to operate with...
> 

Neither am I (a hot shot contest operator) but I had fun and picked up a few
new countries and bands....

73
N4PGW


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