[CQ-Contest] Dollars/qso score

[Felipe Ceglia]

Hi,
I agree that there are already many sub categories, and they are enough. I
am not on defense of this.

My point is that this is a great hobby for homebrewing and "doing it
yourself", and the operation gets a special taste when you end up having
some decent results with such a low profile setup.

Needless to say, I have a personal taste for collecting and re-using junk
and things, hihi.

73,

Felipe

2008/12/4 Dallas and Lucy <ludal at dmv.com>

> 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
>