[RTTY] Fw: SO1RSO2R

[Tom Moore]

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From: "der" <derosan at yahoo.com>
To: <wx4tm at tm-moore.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 1:33 PM
Subject: SO1RSO2R


> Tom,
>
> Please read the attachment, and if you don't mind,
> post it to the RTTY reflector. If anyone wishes to
> comment to me directly, they can at k9mug at yahoo.com.
>
> I'm not signed up for the reflector, but I read it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Darrell
>
> P.S. If you don't want to, thats ok.  DP
>
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> This note is intended as a historical perspective and not a whine or 
> complaint.
> In 2003, my good friend Tom,WX4TM introduced me to RTTY and RTTY 
> contesting.
> One of the first things I noticed was that several of the top scoring 
> stations were
> quite modest antenna-wise and power-wise.
>
> I asked Tom where all the big stations were,comparing RTTY with CW and SSB 
> contest stations.
> Tom was firmly in the camp which said that operator skill was much more 
> important in RTTY
> contesting than having a big antenna system and lots of power. Perhaps so, 
> thought I, but I
> really wasn't convinced.
>
> In an effort to demonstrate my belief, I got serious in 2004. I have ten 
> acres, but few
> supports(trees) above 45 feet. I put a 204ba at 66 feet on the only tower 
> I've got.I added
> a 4 element 40 m beam aimed at EU only at 45 feet in the trees.I built a 3 
> element yagi
> for 15m and an inverted L for 80m. I have continued to try to improve my 
> 80m performance
> because I know that my time is now. It is now for at least two reasons
> 1. I'm old,nearly 70, and in poor health.
> 2. the sunspot cycle is at the bottom, so that I can still gain advantage 
> over those stations
>    who do not have good 40 or 80 meter antennas.
>
> Within a couple of years, I'll be older and sunspots will be higher, As 
> ten meters becomes
> more reliable as well as 15, and with 20m open all the tine, the SO2R 
> crowd will dominate
> completely!!
>
> This does not bother me at all, because I plan to limit my contesting to 
> contests which
> reward distance and which give more points for 80m contacts. EAWW RTTY, 
> Makrothen and OK
> DX come to mind.The XE RTTY contest is good because of the So2R-SO!R 
> split.
>
> Based on my experience in other competitve activities,particularly 
> tournament BRIDGE, it
> is easy to predict that the success of SO2R and the lack of respect shown 
> by many of them
> will lead to a wholesale defection by SO1R which will dramatically reduce 
> participation
> and eventually the number of events.
>
> The more you ignore history, the more certainly you
> will repeat its mistakes.
>
> In the for what it's worth department.
>
> 73,
>
> Darrell
> K9MUG
> 
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