"KØHB" wrote in message
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"Michael Coslo" wrote


The unskilled operators don't do very well even with an excellent setup,
and the skilled operators do well with a more mundane setup that the new
or less experienced have a lot of trouble with.


This assertion is different from your original question which implied that
100W/dipole stations are manned by better operators than "knob twiddlers"
found at better equipped stations. My assertion is that competition-grade
STATIONS ("competition grade" does not mean "most expensive") are built
and operated by competition-grade radiomen. Witness K1TTT, KC1XX, W3LPL,
W0AIH, N0AT, K0KX, K3LR, W7RM, etc., etc.

dit dit
de Hans, K0HB

wow, first in the list! now you are going to make my head swell.