Topband: Rig Question

[W0MU]

This Kind of like houses.  While most of us have more house than we 
need, it is choice that we get to make.   While it may not be the 
fanciest or maybe it is it is what we have.

I don't think anyone made the comment that you have to have the best and 
newest anything to win.  That almost always comes down to operator skill 
and decent antennas.

Who cares how much or how little we spend.  I am thankful that we have 
our choices and are not told that we have to drive X brand or use Y 
radio.  You can't take your money with so you might as well enjoy it!

W0MU


On 6/19/2014 12:20 PM, Gary and Kathleen Pearse wrote:
> Fast forward a few years: http://lists.contesting.com/_3830/2001-11/msg00025.html
>
> I had the pleasure and unique experience to share a chair with Rich KL7RA, Chip K7JA, and others. Watching, listening, soaking in all I could of their radio techniques and pileup control was a once in a lifetime opportunity.
>
> Chip brought his rig of choice at that time for the contest…a Yaesu MK-V Field. Today it’s not at the top of most lists, but I still own, operate, and enjoy one.
>
> 73, Gary NL7Y
>
>> On 6/19/2014 1:30 PM, Carl wrote:
>>> ** Perceptions, pressure, freebies all play into the picture. I wont disagree the K3 has a good receiver, especially for CW but GOOD DXpedition/contest ops have contended with worse for decades and set new records
>> I remember when Chip, K7JA, paid me a visit in the early 80's carrying along a new Yaesu FT-101EE and broke all records in the ARRL SS by winning for the first time won both the Phone and the CW in the same year as first place high scorer.  Much of this can be chalked up to a very good operator, second to a good location and rare multiplier, and lastly to the radio.  The purists at the time teased Chip's use of an inexpensive "rice box" as the FT-101 was called back then.  Few would even list today such a radio as something they used.
>>
>> Herb Schoenbohm., KV4FZ
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