At 08:21 AM 11/13/97 -0500, W4AN wrote:
>
>> I think the WRTC concept was the right idea. Allow only one radio that
can
>> transmit. Allow a second receiver. If the first radio breaks, then you
>> can use the second to transmit.
>
>I think so too for an onsight competition. How would you police only one
>TXing during the contest? Rules should be written so that they can at
>least in theory be enforced. Writing a rule that can never be enforced
>is not a good idea.
OK, then so much for QRP and LP classes, right? For that matter, how do I
know that you're running only 1500 out? Or not monitoring the packet
cluster covertly?
We already have lots of MAJOR rules where we rely on trust. I don't think
there's anything wrong, in principle, with another one.
73,
Pete N4ZR
In Wild Wonderful, fairly rare WEST Virginia
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>From Zack Lau <zlau@arrl.org> Fri Nov 14 21:54:15 1997
From: Zack Lau <zlau@arrl.org> (Zack Lau)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] radio bookstore phone#
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