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Re: [CQ-Contest] Advantages not created equal

To: "Bill Coleman" <aa4lr@arrl.net>, "Roy Maull" <rmaull@charter.net>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Advantages not created equal
From: "Richard DiDonna NN3W" <NN3W@prodigy.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:16:23 -0500
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Well, for one, Field Day.

Rich NN3W

--- Original Message ---
From: Bill Coleman <aa4lr@arrl.net>
To: Roy Maull <rmaull@charter.net>
CC: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Advantages not created equal

>
>On Aug 17, 2004, at 9:42 AM, Roy Maull wrote:
>
>>         The ten minute rule was applied to the SO 
class to squash the 
>> "so called" SO2R advantage.
>
>What contest implements a 10 minute rule for single 
operators?
>
>> It originated for the MOST class with multiple 
radios to preclude 
>> their operating much like a MOMT station.
>>         Although the SO2R station was 
inconvenienced a bit by this 
>> rule, the true SO1R small station that primarily 
works S&P was the 
>> most severely impacted.  It hampers the flexibility 
needed to maximize 
>> the score by chasing mults from band to band as 
needed.
>>         I have always considered this the worst 
rule ever applied to 
>> the SO class.
>
>There's no need to limit the band changes for single 
operators. The 
>operator is the limitation, not band changes.
>
>
>Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: 
aa4lr@arrl.net
>Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever 
fly!"
>             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
>
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