[SECC] TS (TB-WIRES) or not?

[Ben Coleman]

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Answering my own question, I dug up a thread on cq-contesting back in 2000
that makes it looks like submitting as TB-WIRES should be OK.  From Jim, AD1C:

>According to Steve N8BJQ you don't even need the tribander.

>I *almost* won in 1998 CQ WPX SSB using a G5RV dipole (80-10) 35' (10M)
>high and a R7 vertical (used mostly on 15).  Since I had *less* than the
>rules specified, it was OK.  And if I hadn't gotten frustrated Sat.
>afternoon on 20 and took a long break, I probably could have won.  You can
>read about it in CQ Contest! magazine from a year or so ago."

And from Jon Ogden AD9D:

>I think we are reading too much into the rules and technical operations of
>the antennas.  The rules are quite simple:
>
>1.) The antenna on 10,15 and 20 meters must be either a tri-band sort of
>beam or quad WITH A SINGLE FEEDLINE or it can be a single element antenna
>such as a dipole or vertical.
>
>2.) The "single" element or "wire" element antennas are just that.  There
>are single radiating elements on each band.  So having seperate dipoles or
>seperate verticals for each band is within the rules.  A V-beam is a
>multi-wavelength antenna - NOT a multi-element antenna.  Same thing with a
>Rhombic antenna, IMHO.  You basically have one antenna with one set of
>wires.  V-beams and Rhombics fit that category.  I would even go so far as
>to say that having a seperate receive antenna of a single element (one
>beverage for example) would be OK.  Now I am not sure on this as I don't
>have the rules in front of me, but I don't think they require you to use the
>same antenna for transmit and receive as long as both are comprised of one
>wire element.

If these guys are right, my vertical + single-wire antenna qualifies for the
TS category.  Comments (or am I just getting too persnickety?)

Ben
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