[CQ-Contest] adding challenges to field day

[Iain MacDonnell - N6ML]

Rex Maner wrote:
> That 1D can be changed to   1E very easily  by getting an extension cord and 
> bringing it in thru the window and plug it into the outlet in the car port.

Only if the outlet in your car port is not fed from commercial power!


> No need to hook the rig to ther extension cord but Emergency poure is 
> avaliable.

The rule about claiming the bonus if emergency power is available (and
tested) only applies to EOCs (class F).

     ~Iain / N6ML




> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shelby Summerville" <k4ww at arrl.net>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:26 AM
> 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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