Randy,
>From my point of view I would be depressed if the B category would
be done away with. It seems to me the really big guns usually
enter B class. That leaves a chance for a little pistol like myself,
one tribander and wires, to make the top ten in A class as I did
a couple of years ago. Do away with B class and little guys like
me will probably never see the top 10 again with all the big gun
stations fighting for the same. Selfish? Yes, but trying to make
the box is a big motivator for me and SS is one of the few contests
where I got a shot at it from home.
I know we don't need big power to work USA/Canada but at least
it gives us another category for competition. We already have NAQP
for 100W and QRP competitions.
73,
Greg K0OB
At 03:28 AM 11/8/02 -0000, Randy Thompson, K5ZD wrote:
>I too spent time this weekend wondering if I was going to get beaten by a
>guy running 5W!! Great score Tree.
>
>With the strength of the QRP stations this past weekend, it did strike me
>that the SS would do very well as a contest with a 150W output power limit.
>We could just have Q and A categories - completely eliminate the high power
>category.
>
>Let's face it, we don't really need a KW to work around the USA/Canada.
>Since you only need to work once, there is no need for power to make
>marginal QSOs on the low bands.
>
>If you look at the results, A is the most popular category anyway.
>
>It will have more of an impact on Phone SS than CW, but not sure that it
>wouldn't make Phone more interesting and competitive as well.
>
>Of course, anyone could still go to KP2 or KP4 and win...
>
>Randy, K5ZD
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cq-contest-admin@contesting.com
>> [mailto:cq-contest-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Bill Fisher, W4AN
>> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 03:10 AM
>> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
>> Subject: [CQ-Contest] N6TR's QRP SS
>>
>>
>>
>> Maybe some of you missed it, but N6TR operated from the mostly broken
>> (thank Lilly) W5WMU station this past weekend as QRP. Results:
>>
>> Total: 1105 Sections = 79 Total Score = 174,432
>>
>> He bested superman N5TJ's record from 1997 when Jeff managed to beat the
>> old record by more than 37K (that is 181 QSOs). Tree managed to work more
>> than 50 more QSO's than Jeff did in 1997. At one point when I dropped in
>> to see how John was doing at my station, the only comment he made was
>> that N6TR was only (I believe) 30 QSOs behind him operating with 1500w!
>>
>> Oh, I also think Pat also deserves a lot of credit for getting the station
>> patched back together for Tree. I don't have all the details of what he
>> accomplished in just a few days, but maybe Tree can fill us in.
>>
>> Great score OM! Hopefully nobody will feel compelled to fly to KP4 to
>> prove how much better they are than you. ;)
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
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