[CQ-Contest] New category: "Wires only"??

[Jimk8mr@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/27/06 8:38:45 AM Eastern Standard Time, n5ot at n5ot.com  
writes:

I'm not  
much for the idea of a "wires" category, but if there was a "wires"  category 
it might need to specify single half-waves, or a maximum amount  of wire in 
the antenna in terms of wavelength.  Or  something.




The normalizing of contest performance per wavelength of antenna can give  
cool results.  Though not strictly a "wire", in the 2005 Michigan QSO Party  I 
had the NA 10 minute rate timer peak at 223/hr on 80 meter CW using a seven  
foot long HamStick mobile antenna.  In terms of wavelength, that was over  8000 
qsos per hour per wavelength of antenna.
 
Eat your hearts out, M/M operators!
 
 
73   -   Jim    K8MR