Steve, the grass is always greener on the other side. :-)
Those, who have never done "GUEST OPERATING" would always think it's
some kind of heaven or at least a "warm shower".
What I would say - "the best op will always win", no matter what.
73, Yuri VE3DZ
On 10/5/2020 11:10 AM, Steve London wrote:
For those of you who think that being a guest-op is a walk-in-the-woods,
let me tell ya...
In CQWW CW 2019, I was guest op at K1ZZ's fine station. I had no on-site
assistance from Dave. In fact, Dave was 9000 miles away, operating in 3B8.
He had not been at his home QTH for the previous month. I arrived at his
station 2 days before the contest. The first order of business was to hook
everything up and see what was working, and what needed fixing. I also had
to plumb in some RX antenna switching boxes that I brought from home. I
won't go into great details, but the major fixes were repairing a 2x6
switch, and replacing a stackmatch at 90'. Neither involved an overnight
shipment from DX Engineering - rather, it was searching through Dave's
garage to find working replacements from a pile of stuff he got from the
previous NN1N station.
I can tell you more stories about my guest-op experiences at N3HBX and K1VR
the previous 2 years, but that will have to wait for a Xenia hospitality
suite. They both had their challenges.
73,
Steve, N2IC
On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 8:38 AM <john@kk9a.com> wrote:
There may be some advantage to being a guest op. The top three SOAB
scores in the last CQWW CW contest were made by guest ops and the top
US score was also a guest op.
John KK9A
K9MA wrote:
How about the guest operator who shows up before the contest for a
single-op operation, while the host spends the weekend fixing things the
go wrong? With remote operation, the guest op doesn't even have to
actually be there.
Personally, I've always just disregarded guest op scores when comparing
them to my own.
73,
Scott K9MA
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