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

[Mike Coslo]

Tyler Stewart wrote:

>Of course, we'll have the Force Radio Gestapo conduct raids on suspects
>stations and cut off their privates for violations!  Geez!  How do we
>enforce ANY contest rules?
>
>Who cares about loading coils?  The 70 foot height is a maximum, not
>average.  No part of any antenna may be higher than 70 feet (in my world of
>wires).
>
>I don't care if someone gets creative and figures out how to get 12 db gain
>out of a single conductor as long as it's simple, cheap, and easy for anyone
>else to recreate.  Keep in mind that gain is going to create a null
>somewhere else and there should be no rotators in this wires category!  More
>power to them!
>
>Come on guys, these are just IDEAS!  I'm not writing the contest rules!
>Let's keep an OPEN mind please!
>
>  
>

    Easy there Tyler! It isn't a closed mind, but examples of questions 
that WILL be asked!. I'll bow out of this thread now, sorry to have 
upset you.

    - 73 de Mike KB3EIA -