[RTTY] Not to beat the ANTENNA OVERKILL horse...

[Phil Sussman]

What Bill says, limited -vs- unlimited makes sense to me.

I've avoided contests recently because I was told that
any contact with me is worthless because I've given up
bothering to submit my log. I was told that's why some
stations won't work me during a contest -- a waste of
their time and effort. Any Q with me gets deleted.

That's a sad state of affairs. You see contesting used
to be fun for me, not for the points, but for the 
enjoyment. Now, to many, all that matters is scoring 
every extra point to the extent of trampling the bands 
and the obsession of winning at any expense.

Thank goodness for the WARC bands.. that's where you'll
find me during a contest. RTTY works on 17m, too.

Contesting has stopped being an amateur operation and
turned into a professional vocation. How sad!

Phil Sussman - N8PS
Clayton, Ohio

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Quoting Bill Turner <dezrat at copper.net>:

> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
> 
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:53:16 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >I hope you see what I'm getting at. I'm not making any future plans for a
> >new wire antenna
> >
> >category. But someone will, and most likely with better plan then what I
> >have written above..
> 
> ------------ REPLY SEPARATOR ------------
> 
> Hi Ron, nice to hear from you again. For those new to RTTY contesting,
> Ron was the AA5AU of his day, and I mean that as a compliment to both.
> 
> Ron used to wipe the floor with all of us and he knows whereof he
> speaks.
> 
> But...  My proposal goes beyond just one radio vs two, or what kind of
> wires one puts up. I'm suggesting two classes: Limited and Unlimited. 
> 
> LIMITED CLASS: 
> 
> 1. One TX, one RX. When the TX is on, the RX must be off and vice
> versa. In other words, conventional transceiver operation.
> 
> 2. No spotting of any kind, either help in the shack or internet,
> packet, etc, etc. Find 'em and work 'em the old fashioned way.
> 
> 3. A "modest" antenna system. One antenna per band. 20/15/10 may have
> the gain-equivalent of a three element yagi and 160/80/40 the gain
> equivalent of a half wave dipole. All antennas may be rotatable.
> 
> UNLIMITED CLASS:
> 
> 1. Anything legal in your country is allowed.
> 
> 
> Within those two classes you could have single op and multi op, and
> HP/LP/QRP if desired, but the hardware would stay the same. I think
> this would encourage the average amateur with a "modest" station to
> give contesting a try. 
> 
> Sounds pretty doable to me. What do you think?
> 
> Bill, W6WRT
> 
> 
> 
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