At 06:03 AM 5/24/2006, R L Measures wrote:
>On May 23, 2006, at 12:38 PM, W0UN -- John Brosnahan wrote:
>
>>At 11:14 AM 5/23/2006, R L Measures wrote:
>>>Doug -- When I was occasionally running the Plywood Box 20db
>>>amplifier on 40m, and I was answering questions about it over the
>>>air, the FCC received a number of letters about me from
>>>complainants. Thanks to an FCC employee who happened to be a Ham who
>>>guest operated at multi-multi contest stations, I learned that the
>>>majority of these letters came from owners of contest stations whose
>>>amplifiers used tubes that had handles.
>>>- cheerz
>>
>>
>>Rich--
>>
>>This sounds like a cheap shot to me.
>
>It happened, John.
Rich--
I am not saying it didn't happen. What I AM saying is that your
comment makes it sound like contesters running tubes with handles
is rampant among the contest fraternity. And what I am saying is
that I have a pretty large, statistically-relevant sample, that contains
NO contesters running tubes with handles. And in fact all of the
BIG stations that I know are extremely diligent about running LEGAL
power. To do otherwise would be to totally devalue the effort made
to be competitive. It is my contention that winners win because
they are better operators -- you make it sound like winners cheat.
I can't say that no contester has ever cheated -- I don't KNOW that.
What I do know is that I have seen many stations and they are all
LEGAL.
>> I'm aware of (KC1XX, K1RX, K1TTT, W1KM, VY2ZM, W3LPL, K3LR, etc.) run
>> strictly legal.
>
>... and they never, ever drive faster than 65.00 mph on the Interstates.
This is a fallacious argument. Apples and oranges. CONTESTERS (as
opposed to those who might operate an occasional contest) are not in
it for the money (!) they are in it for the personal satisfaction and
recognition
of their skills. To cheat would be to devalue their own efforts.
And (BTW) the little road that runs past our property has no shoulders
and the lanes are barely wide enough for an RV trailer -- two oncoming
trailers tend to drop their outer wheels off the road to clear each other.
And the speed limit is 70 MPH! And what does this have to do with
contesting? Absolutely nothing, which is my point. Driving and contesting
are not related.
John W0UN
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