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

[John Fleming]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Lenaghan VE4LR" <VE4LR at arrl.net>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Not to beat the ANTENNA OVERKILL horse...


> Greetings
>
> I'm new to the list and just walked in on this discussion.

Welcome!  You can count on this discussion once or twice a year.  The 
arguments are the same, just a few new participants in the discussion each 
year.

It's a flawed situation with no perfect answers.  Who wants the playing 
field to be level except for operator skill (in operating) anyway?  That 
might be OK for one contest a year, but "operator skill" includes a lot of 
other things, including but not limited to innovation with equipment and 
antennas.  If someone makes a new killer antenna from scrap parts, he should 
be rewarded with a higher place in the competition.  Everyone using the same 
equipment with the same propagation would be a little boring, wouldn't it?

73 - John, WA9ALS