[CQ-Contest] [NCCC] SS Packet DANGER, DANGER, Will Robinson!!!

[Paul J. Piercey]

Tom,

You can add to the equation:

One guy with a TS-440 and a 3 el tribander and a low dipole for 40 and 80 is
operating in the sweeps and has been lucky enough to find all but 3 mults
for the sweep. He has the cluster running because, well, because he feels it
helps. He needs PAC, WY and NL for the sweep and posts a request on the
cluster for anyone hearing either of these to please consider posting them.
He sees lots of posts for SCV and ENY and NNJ and ON and BC and PR. Another
station who just so happens to have just finished working a KH6 posts it and
off our intrepid op runs to try to work him. After 75 minutes he finally
busts the now-dwindling pileup and makes the contact but the contest is now
over. He missed 2.

How much assistance did he get?


73 -- Paul VO1HE  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tom Osborne
> Sent: November 18, 2006 00:25
> To: CQ-Contest
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] [NCCC] SS Packet DANGER, DANGER, 
> Will Robinson!!!
> 
> OK, here are a couple of scenerio's.
> 
> I buy 6 4-el steppirs and and 2 200 foot towers. I have an 
> engineer from 'Sky High' antenna company come over, erect 
> towers and the antennas, and to be sure there are no problems 
> in this weekends contest, I pay him $1000 to stay over the 
> weekend. Everything goes up and both stacks play great.
> 
> Then I buy 3 FT-2000's and have a tech from Yaesu come over, 
> install 2 of them in a SO2R configuration. Just to be on the 
> safe side, I pay him $1000 to stick around for the contest.
> 
> I get 3 brand new computers, complete with all the 'whiz 
> bang' stuff I need to operate the station. The rep from 
> 'Blazing Speed' computer supplier comes over and sets up 
> everything. I also pay him $1000 to hang around during the contest. 
> 
> I'm going to need some SO2R stuff, so I buy 2 each of the 
> latest and best stuff from 'Two Radio Inc', including 
> automatic antenna switching, band data interface, bandass 
> filters for each band, etc, etc. I get the 'Two Radio Inc' 
> expert to install the hardware, build all the cables, and 
> keep a complete extra setup handy. Also keep him around over 
> the weekend.
> 
> Also need the software, so have the writer for the version I 
> am using build a special edition just for my preferences. He 
> comes over and gives me a tutorial on how to use the 
> software, makes up a template for the F-keys, pre-fills and 
> installs all the macro's, and gives me a video on how to use 
> the program. Pay him to stick around, too. 
> 
> I hire Rachael Ray to come over for the weekend and cook and 
> serve meals for us all.
> 
> During the contest, one of the stacks quits working. So the 
> antenna guru switches me over to the other tower, climbs the 
> tower, fixes my antenna, and gets me back in SO2R in about half hour.
> 
> The brand new SO2R setup quits working. The SO2R guru 
> switches all the SO2R equipment out, including all the 
> cables, boxes and filters (can't be too careful). Gets me 
> back in SO2R in 25 minutes.
> 
> The FT-2000's are still new, so one of them has a problem. My 
> Yaesu guru quickly switches out the radio for the spare I 
> bought. I was actually not able to operate SO2R for about 15 
> minutes there.
> 
> I am not using packet or any spotting.
> 
> What class am I in?
> 
> Scenerio 2.
> 
> Using an FT-840, TS-430, and a 130 foot zepp antenna. Got one 
> old computer and a home-brew SO2R box, including all the 
> home-brew cables. Made up some stubs from some old coax I had 
> out in the garage. 
> 
> Got some freeware contesting software I downloaded off the 
> internet. Downloaded it a week ahead of the contest and spent 
> the week learning how to use it.
> 
> My buddy comes on frequency and says "VE8XX" is up 7." I work him.
> 
> What class am I in? 
> 
> Who is assisted and who isn't?  73
> 
> Tom W7WHY
> 
> 
> 
> > If that guy tells you "Jay is up 7", AND YOU GO THERE, you 
> are indeed assisted, just the same if he were in your shack 
> on a second radio and yelled it across the room. 
> > 
> > Period.
> > 
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