[CQ-Contest] Awards: no more wood?

[Jack Brindle]

How about one of the alphanumeric LED badges that have become popular  
at hamfests? You could download the award information and walk around  
Dayton (or some similar event) boasting of winning the big contest!   
Just imagine next year's Dayton with all these big contesters (and  
wanna-bes) just walking around claiming they won various contests! And  
then imagine what will happen when two (or three) guys who all claim  
they won the same contest come across each other...

Someday I may actually win a contest award. For now it is just fine to  
know that I finished the contest...


On Mar 2, 2009, at 5:21 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:

> How about both!
>
> I think something you can wear is great.  I would bet that the  
> winners would
> be happy to pay for a medal or similar.
>
>
> "A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue  
> you may
> never get over." Ben Franklin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of kr2q at optimum.net
> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 5:42 PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Awards: no more wood?
>
> Someone said that plaques are heavy, expensive to ship, take a long  
> time,
> etc.
>
> He is right!  And you can't "show them off" unless someone stops by  
> your
> QTH.
>
> How about cashing in your old wooden plaques for medals and  
> ribbons?  Not
> only are they less expensive to ship (not sure about cost), but you  
> can wear
> them to your favorite ham event and show off in public.
>
> I have always been impressed with the Soviet style of recognition.   
> They
> really seemed to "get it right."  Of course, lots of others do a  
> similar
> thing.
>
> http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t054/T05
> 4776A.jpg
>
> http://members.tripod.com/otlichnik/VP2.jpg
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00206/PETRAEUS_206954a.gif
>
> http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2007-08-25-PaceMedals2005.jpg
>
> http://wwii-militaria.net/images/French_19.jpg
>
> http://www.antoniogiuliano.com/images/ThorntonM.jpg
>
> http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0ffR2VN7Ft2Qd/340x.jpg
>
> http://myhero.com/images/Community/Noor/g1_u42084_queennoor7.jpg
>
> Couldn't you just imagine yourself at the contest suites with a  
> chest-full
> of medals?
> And what better photo for a M/M than to show off all of their ops  
> than with
> everybody sitting there with a big smile and wearing all those  
> medals of
> achievement?
>
> I think I have a couple CQ-M medals around here somewhere.  There  
> ARE pretty
> cool.
>
> de Doug KR2Q
>
>
>
> tic
>
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- Jack Brindle, W6FB
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