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

[Bill Turner]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

At 09:05 AM 1/28/2006, Tyler Stewart wrote:
>Rules have to be measureable and enforceable and trying to specify a 
>gain limitation would be anything but that IMHO...  How would you 
>calculate ground losses, odd configurations due to space 
>limitations, ground reflections, etc?  There would be all sorts of 
>excuses made to justify estimated gain calculations.  Totally 
>unenforceable and way too abstract.



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Q. What kind of antenna do you have?
A. Full wave dipole.
Q. Nope.

Q. What kind of antenna do you have?
A. Half wave vertical.
Q. Nope.

Q. What kind of antenna do you have?
A. Inverted vee.
Q. OK.

Q. What kind of antenna do you have?
A. Longwire.
Q. Nope

Q. What kind of antenna do you have?
A. Eight foot mobile whip.
Q. OK.

And so on and on. Enforced the same way the power limit is enforced.

73, Bill W6WRT