[CQ-Contest] FW: More ARRL DX Thoughts

[Robert Chudek - K0RC]

Yeah, imagine all the cheating that would go on with this... some guys 
would be putting dispensables more powerful than M&M's in that gadget!

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN


On 6/28/2011 5:27 PM, Radio K0HB wrote:
> Contesters aren't as smart as rats.  Wouldn't catch on.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jimk8mr at aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 9:15 PM
> To: brooke.t.allen at gmail.com ; cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] FW: More ARRL DX Thoughts
>
> I've long thought that logging programs should include an output that
> triggers an M&M dispenser for each new multiplier, 100K point barrier,  full
> hour of operating without off times, etc.
>
> If rewards work for rats, they ought to work for contesters.
>
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> 73  -  Jim  K8MR
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> In a message dated 6/28/2011 4:27:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> brooke.t.allen at gmail.com writes:
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> Much  more can be done in SOFTWARE to make contests more fun. Imagine a .dta
> file  with this grid square and county info that is updated real time  from
> QRZ.com to fill in blanks.
>
> Work a new state, and a window pops  up briefly with the previously worked
> states in gray and the new state  flashing in red.
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> The same for grid squares. Even working a new county  might pop up a state
> map with the counties already worked in gray and the  new one flashing in
> red.
>
> A great circle map might flash the path as  a red line for the current
> contact, and it leaves a dot on the map for the  contact which begins to
> fade, eventually leaving the map  completely.
>
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