[CQ-Contest] Americas Cup Sailing - Watch and Learn

[Tom Osborne]

Excellent post Bill.

Guys on the east coast just don't understand what it is to do a DX contest
here on the left coast with the sunspot numbers in the toilet.  If we're
lucky, we just MIGHT get an over the pole opening and be able to work some
DX for an hour or two..

If you are on the east coast, you can run Europe on 40 with a dipole at 40
feet and 100 watts.  We sit here listening to them and never hear who they
are working.  Forgot about 80 - ain't gonna happen.

When single op's make bigger scores than the M/M's on the west coast, we
need something to make it 'interesting' or take up model railroading.  73
Tom W7WHY




On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Bill via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the heads-up on the the America's Cup. I just watched an hour
> of it on
> the DirecTV NBCSHD feed and it was great! A combination of high tech,
> tactics, and
> human athletic performance. I thought sailing was a guy sitting in a
> little boat
> with his hand on the rudder. Turns out to be a great team sport.
>
> But I don't see how this applies to technology and where contesting is
> "going". Is
> your post another anti skimmer rant? Where contesting is going is a
> sunspot minimum
> where W1/W2/W3 will dominate even more, because of contest rules and
> scoring. 99% of
> contesters use "technology" to simply make the contest more fun, to make
> more Q's.
> Why would anyone sit in front of a radio if you can't make any Q's?
> Contesting is
> becoming boring even with "technology"
>
> 73, Bill KO7SS in Arizona