[CQ-Contest] adding challenges to field day

[K1TTT]

Feel free to add that if you find too many D stations calling you.  We'll be
on from here with 2d or 3d or maybe more, still haven't decided for sure
yet.  Warm and dry and no bugs.


David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shelby Summerville [mailto:k4ww at arrl.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:26
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] adding challenges to field day
> 
> Felipe J Hernandez wrote: "if you ask me, "contest like" 1D's ruin the
> fun."
> 
> IMHO, not necessarily? How about the, "fun" that the 1D operators have?
> Not
> everyone, myself included, is inclined to operate "while handling
> generators. logging networks, turning antennas manually, the heat creating
> all kinds of disconforts  you know where, the bugs bitting, people asking
> what are you doing?, people asking to give them a chance to operate,
> people
> stuffing you with more hotdogs your body can handle."? I proposed, several
> years ago, to ARRL that 1D stations be required to append 1D to their CQ,
> to
> keep other 1D stations from calling them, with no benefit to either
> station.
> Unless the rules have changed, that suggestion has not been implemented?
> 
> C'Ya, Shelby - K4WW
> 
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