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![]() K=D8HB wrote: wrote I also disagree because when you get right down to it it's functionally the same as using the spots. No, it's not functionally equivalent. If you use cluster spots, then you= are using information the some OTHER RADIOMAN at a DIFFERENT STATION provided= .. If you have your own robo-hound searching FROM YOUR STATION then you acquire= d the information of the air without assistance from outside sources. If you work a mult you didn't find with your own ears you're using assistance. =20 =20 73, de Hans, K0HB w3rv |
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![]() wrote If you work a mult you didn't find with your own ears you're using assistance. Truely I could argue that any aid in your station is "assistance" --- but not OUTSIDE assistance. Dupe sheets and electric pencil sharpeners are "assistance" at some stations! If you can harness technology to gain some advantage in the radiosport game, so long as that technology is in YOUR station and under YOUR control, then more power to you. Only if that assistance originates at ANOTHER station as the result of efforts of other radiomen (ie., cluster spots), then your log should no longer qualify as an SO entry. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! 73, de Hans, K0HB |
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![]() K=D8HB wrote: wrote If you work a mult you didn't find with your own ears you're using assistance. Truely I could argue that any aid in your station is "assistance" --- but= not OUTSIDE assistance. Dupe sheets and electric pencil sharpeners are "assi= stance" at some stations! If you can harness technology to gain some advantage in the radiosport ga= me, so long as that technology is in YOUR station and under YOUR control, then m= ore power to you. Only if that assistance originates at ANOTHER station as t= he result of efforts of other radiomen (ie., cluster spots), then your log s= hould no longer qualify as an SO entry. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! OK, OK, OK! SHEEEESH . . #@%x#$ . . . !=20 =20 73, de Hans, K0HB |
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![]() "Dee Flint" wrote in message ... "Dan/W4NTI" wrote in message ink.net... [snip] Why do I contest? To improve my score by improving my station and myself. Its as simple as that. Have a good day PS; I worked a bunch of sporadic skip yesterday on six meters in the June VHF contest.....with 8 watts and a 3 ele yagi at 20'. It's all a matter of perspective. Dan/W4NTI I and the OM also worked some of the VHF contest and noticed a very strange thing. Only 10% of the contacts that we made were Technician operators. On the other hand, 80% of them were Extra class operators. So where are all the Techs who are "trapped" in VHF and above because they "can't" pass the code (as some would have us believe)? Dee D. Flint, N8UZE Hey Dee, Good question actually. Perhaps they are part of the vast majority of hams that are inactive. More likely they are all "stuck" on FM and have not a clue what else is going on with V/Uhf. What a shame. Dan/W4NTI |
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![]() wrote in message oups.com... Dee Flint wrote: I and the OM also worked some of the VHF contest and noticed a very strange thing. Only 10% of the contacts that we made were Technician operators. On the other hand, 80% of them were Extra class operators. So where are all the Techs who are "trapped" in VHF and above because they "can't" pass the code (as some would have us believe)? It's Techs being Techs again, they're too busy "advancing the state of the art" to be bothered with learning the code and contesting. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE w3rv BWAHHHHHHHHH....we both know the "Tech" license stopped being technical in nature way back in the early 60s. And MOST VHF/UHF contesting is done in SSB mode. Dan/W4NTI |
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![]() wrote in message ups.com... Dan/W4NTI wrote: Winning is beating the Yankee Clippers. Try operating at that "level" for the ultimate contesting experience. 73 de Jim, N2EY w3rv You got that right. Keep an eye on W4AN. The new call for the SECC (South East Contest Club). NQ4I is another super station to watch for. Also SECC. Uh-oh! This is news to me. A real three-way brawl amongst the Unlimiteds would inject some new fire into the game for certain. But you better be able to pull up around 250 Meg aggregate to get into it. Dan/W4NTI Oh I know.... I know....keep a watch for the SECC. Were on the way. Dan/W4NTI |
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![]() wrote in message oups.com... wrote: wrote: KØHB wrote: "Bill Turner" wrote Contesting hardware has evolved to the point that one must spend a small fortune to be competitive.......... I don't think money is what makes you competitive. Depends on what's competitive, the op, the station or both. A competitive op doesn't have spend a dime on a station. Which is where some of the hotshot multi-op guys come from. One of ours lives in Manhatten for instance, zero chance for having a home station no matter how much money he might be willing to spend. Have skills will travel. It's an important factor, though. Always has been. Part of the game in most contests. I agree with that. One can take a $200 station or even a $1,000 station into the contests and have some fun with it but it won't be a competitive station by a long shot *if* the frame of reference is a decent score in the DX contests. A decent score in SS at the section level with a budget station is another story altogether. "Pick the fights you can win", as a wise man once wrote. 73 de Jim, N2EY Which is why Sweeps is such a major contest. Lots of small stations in all sorts of locations. It is a blast. In the last 7 years I have 5 clean sweep cups. Both for phone and CW. Thats the challange for me. Dan/W4NTI |
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![]() wrote in message ups.com... KØHB wrote: wrote If you work a mult you didn't find with your own ears you're using assistance. Truely I could argue that any aid in your station is "assistance" --- but not OUTSIDE assistance. Dupe sheets and electric pencil sharpeners are "assistance" at some stations! If you can harness technology to gain some advantage in the radiosport game, so long as that technology is in YOUR station and under YOUR control, then more power to you. Only if that assistance originates at ANOTHER station as the result of efforts of other radiomen (ie., cluster spots), then your log should no longer qualify as an SO entry. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! OK, OK, OK! SHEEEESH . . #@%x#$ . . . ! 73, de Hans, K0HB I don't know about all you big guns but I need all the help I can get. But I still do it the old fashioned way. I hunt and find. Dan/W4NTI |
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![]() "KØHB" wrote in message ink.net... I hear real estate is very reasonably priced in VY0-land. 73, de Hans, K0HB But Hans......won't the SB-220 melt the igloo? Dan/W4NTI |
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