[UK-CONTEST] GI1W claimed score ?

[Cooper, Stewart]

If I were wanting to win a comtest of any kind I would want to maximise my opportunities to score points. This may not involve an armchair, but my seat would be located to maximise points (probably on the top of a hill). I would also have beaters running round raising grouse which I didn't initially see. Contesting isn't DX-ing.

Stewart
GM4AFF

('bout time we had a packet dissing thread.)

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Andy swiffin
Sent: 17 November 2004 09:50
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] GI1W claimed score ?


>
>
>>>> "Chris Tran ZL1CT" <zl1ct at gm7v.com> 17/11/2004 05:53:52 >>>
>Hi Robert et al
>
>Any word of a claimed score for GI1W in CQ WW SSB ?
>
>On a separate issue, I was amazed to read a posting recently from a
UK
>contest station along the lines of 'our mult station could not
function
>properly because the DX Cluster link was down' ..mmm.... I don't want
to
>hurt anyone's feelings, but surely the whole point of a 'mult' station
is
>that it finds and works multipliers, usually by the old-fashioned
method of
>tuning around and finding them (which is a heck of a lot more
interesting
>than just clicking on a spot) ?

I'm glad I saw this.  I was wondering if I'm the only one who thinks
that the DXcluster is the worst thing ever to happen to radio and
particularly to contests.

Whatever happened to the fun of the chase, winkling out weak stations,
carefully tuning looking for something new to work.

It's like someone going out hunting grouse on the moors, having their
armchair delivered to the top of the hill and sitting there passively
while someone else runs around catching the grouse and bringing them
along to be shot by the sloth in the chair.  OK I'm sure you'll get lots
of grouse that way but its not really the point is it!

DX on a plate sir?  No thanks  ;-)

Cheers
Andy
gm8oeg

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