I love the SP contest. . . it's great fun! But I have to agree with George.
. . not sure moving it to the weekend before Christmas is a great idea.
Like many, I have conflicts but I'll be there some though.
73 and Season's Greetings to all. . . Dave
W0FLS
----- Original Message -----
From: George Taft <gtaft@voyager.net>
To: <W8JI@contesting.com>; <topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Results, 1998 Stew Perry TDC?
>
> I'd agree with Tom that the "Stew Perry" is a fun contest - whether
> running HP or LP - even tho the LP mult is very skewed towards the LP
> operation (maybe by design?)
>
> I'm not sure moving the dates to the weekend preceding Christmas is a
> good one. Many of us will have family conflicts with that date.
>
> But W8TOP will try to be there some of Saturday nite, just the same.
>
> 73 George W8UVZ
>
> Tom Rauch wrote:
>
> > Hi Jeff and all,
> >
> > This is a fun contest.
> >
> > The lesson I learned was to never use high power because all
> > scores are lumped together.
> >
> > Running high power moves the pain and suffering of digging out
> > weak signals to the ears of the high power operator, and as a
> > reward for being made to suffer for hours, the low power guys get at
> > least twice as many points in the process.
> >
> > ex-NO4S, Wiley Bunn, always said the guys who copy low power
> > stations deserve the awards since they do all the work!
> >
> > In honor of Wiley Bunn NO4S, a dear friend who is now SK, I'd like
> > to sponsor a special award for the high power guy who suffers the
> > most through listening to weak signals just to help them score all
> > the points!
> >
> > 73, Tom W8JI
> > w8ji@contesting.com
> >
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