[CQ-Contest] Dollars/qso score

[Dallas and Lucy]

Felipe,

First, congrats on a great effort and thanks for all the Q's.  I tallied up 
your
antenna system, using very modest used prices, and came up with $2600.
For new stuff, it would have likely been well over $7000 and we haven't even
gotten into the shack yet.  That's the problem with trying to set category 
by
dollars.  It is subject to thrifty buying and availability of good friends 
to help
out with donations and good prices.  Being able to design, build and
construct your own antennas and towers also saves a lot, but DOES have
dollar value.  My point is that there are a lot of different perspectives 
that
can be applied to determining station cost.

Two towers, four mono-banders, rotators and coax would be well over the
$1500 mark for most folks and we haven't even talked about radios, amps,
computers, filters, RF switches and all the ancillary items in the shack.

73, Dallas W3PP

PY1NB wrote:
Hi Ulli and folks,

We operated PR1T this year.

We have spent a little more than the $1500,00 that Ulli mentioned (I´d say
we havent reached the U$5000,00 which I consider pretty modest for a
contesting station), but we still are on the low budget side of the thing,
even making the station being alive from charity of some very good friends,
as you can see on our QRZ.COM profile.

WIth a limited setup: 5 element 15m and 10m yagis on tower A @17m high, and
3 element 20m plus 2 element short 40m beam on tower B @ 20m high, 1 KW
amps. We had a pretty good bang for the buck ratio: 4500 qsos

All of our operators got amazed with results, and we have a smile stamped on
our faces that will probably last for some weeks.

Anyway, thats was lot of fun!

73,

Felipe - PY1NB
PR1T TEAM