[VHFcontesting] Re: Good Buddy QSOs

[George Fremin III]

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 05:10:18PM -0400, Andrew T. Flowers, K0SM wrote:

> Kenneth E. Harker wrote:
> 
> >Yes, that rule is an abomination.
> >
> 
> I understand where you are coming from, but I think that the rule isn't 
> necessarily the evil that it appears.  Is it fair that all 25 people at 
> the K0SM multi-multi built little 24GHz Gunn diode transceivers from 
> surplus motion detectors and worked eachother on the patio during the 
> January contest at 8pts each?


No I dont think it is fair. 


  What if these tranceivers were the result 
> of a massive project put on by the Central Nebraska VHF Club in which 
> lots of newbies got their first taste of the microwaves?

I think that is great - still does not change my feeling about 
working all the ops at the M/M for points.

   Good for them 
> if this multi-multi beats the their northern competition because they 
> were motivated to generate more RF than the Bismark Microwave Society.

This is why I think it is bad. 

Maybe this is one more reason to stay in the limited multop class...... of 
course maybe I just need to ditch the 222 band in favor of 24ghz and 
have the local 400 member radio club get on the ball with a club
project and then invite them all over for BBQ and some QSOs.

I am close enough to the grid corner - I bet I could work them 
several times each.

mmm..... now if I did that and won .... would that get the rules 
changed like the time the rovers did some grid circling?

Think about it.

-- 
George Fremin III - K5TR
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