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

[Tom Homewood]

> 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.


There are very few contests where your contacts won't count, especially if 
you make enough to show up in multiple logs.

I don't think CQWW or ARRL exclude unique calls even.

I believe you have been given some bad information.

Come back to the majority of contests that don't require you to submit a 
log.

73, Tom, W1TO



>
> 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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