stew perry has it something like "all antennas confined to a 50 foot cube" with the bottom of the cube at your living room height, not extending over salt marshes or open sea, the total home depot cost of the antennas shall not exceed $100, no design help from Antenna Experts, all antennas must be invisible from the closest street, and positively NO kirptonite balans (rules set for 160 meter contests) -- Bill Turner wrote: ORIGINAL MESSAGE: At 07:30 PM 1/25/2006, John Geiger (NE0P) wrote: >Wouldn't a single element wire also include a rhombic? > >73s John NE0P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It sure would. This shows how carefully things have to be worded when making rules. Perhaps stating the gain equivalent would be better, i.e. "An antenna with gain equivalent to a half-wave dipole or a 1/4 wave vertical worked against ground". 73, Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest