After you have kids and other non-radio committments, sometimes
the distractions just become part of the challenge of it all.
KR2J writes:
> None of the guys who has to take his kids to "Chuck E.
> Cheese" for a birthday party or go to his mother-in-laws' Sunday
> afternoon, or whatever the reason, is going to win [the 24 hour]
> category...
Hey! It just depends on how you work the angles, Bob!
I combined the two for the November SS CW...hauled the TenTec, the
IsoLoop, dipoles, and laptop to my mother-in-law's QTH in Wyoming
to work some Q's! She thought the whole operation was kind of
humorous. But her insight into participation incentives was
great--when this thing was described to her as being a "sweepstakes"
she really had in mind that if I won, that I'd be driving around
a brand new Ford Mustang 5.0 GT, or something of that order.
Now THAT's incentive. The idea of pins and even coffee mugs was
really underwhelming to her (but I was really looking for the
multipliers to get that mug!! Maybe next year.).
A point to consider when trying to attract busy hams into
contesting, is that if you really enjoy operating HF but don't have
a lot of radio time to spare, you can *really* get a big
dose of HF operating in a short period of time via contesting!
73 from a ham who spent the last hours of the ARRL DX Phone at
the Fort Collins Chuck E. Cheese,
Dave Palmer, N6KL
Boulder, Colorado
davep@arraytech.com --or-- palmer_dave@tandem.com
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