[RTTY] Do you need more controversy in your life???

[Robert Chudek - K0RC]

Hey fellow RTTYers... Need some more excitement? They're about to start up the SOxR discussion on the cq-contest reflector... so if you can stand the heat, come on in... the water's fine!

73 de Bob - K0RC


Message: 13
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:30:37 -0600
From: "VE5ZX" <ve5zx at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Fw: SO1R and SO2R
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Cc: Rick Tavan N6XI <rtavan at gmail.com>
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> We all agree that big antennas have an advantage over small antennas ...
> bigger than the SO2R advantage over SO1R.

> So what? Contesting is not a level playing field. WRTC gets closer. Live
> with it.

Unfortunately this sort of thinking does little to encourage new 
participants!

An SO1R participant is a different class of contestant than SO2R 
participant!

The sooner the contest community addresses problems like these with some 
innovative thinking the more likely we will be to attract new participants - 
most, if not all, of which, will start off as SO1R and then migrate to SO2R 
once hooked.

Come guys lets get creative about these sort of issues! Frequently it does 
not require the creation of another class or more paper/plaques BUT simply a 
better on-line reporting system that allows contestants to compare 
themselves with competitors with  similar setup!

Syl

Sylvan Katz - VE5ZX
Saskatoon, SK