[SCCC] [sddxcnews] RE: Field Day

[John Graf]

Ha!  That is pretty funny.

Let's see.  You have scores, multipliers, entry categories, score
submissions, bonus points and posted results.  But it is not a contest.

I guess I enter about a dozen "not contests" every year.

John, WA6L


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:10 PM, <pushed66705 at mypacks.net> wrote:

>
>
> Field Day is NOT a CONTEST, why everyone operates it as one baffles me.  It
> is an emergency exercise,,,,,,,,, when you preplan, use towers, food cooks,
> vans, mobile cities, towers on trailers, assemble schedules, prequalify
> operators, use computers, etc it is not indicitiave of a real/simulated
> emergency.  See what happens in a real emergency, I doubt any of that.
>
> my 2 cents
>
> Joe, w6vnr
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Price
> Sent: Jun 25, 2009 10:23 PM
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> Subject: [sddxcnews] RE: [SCCC] Field Day
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> I (K6ZH) will be doing a 1E operation from my home QTH with help from
> neighbor hams - running without commercial power as a demo to our local
> community / CERT folks. Feel free to drop in - QTH is OK on QRZ.COM
>
> 73 - Jim, K6ZH
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