A good point, "it's not a contest", but every club has different goals
as does the ARRL beyond "emergency test". Our primary club goals are
increased participation, learning, and promoting ham radio. So
operators range from coaching newly minted, never spoke on HF to hard
core contesters, one cw and one ssb stations plus a GOTA and VHF/UHF.
Every operator has a different style/goal & skill/experience level.
However, making it really hard for newbies with QRP or poor antennas,
won't bring many back when they find just the QRM and logging challenges
pretty daunting. It is easy to forget how well experienced ops hear,
run short and fast Q's, and multitask the logging work vs newbies.
So, keep the "rules" as they are is my vote. Keep FD a big tent for ham
radio.
And FD is a "gateway drug" to real contesting for some newbies I've
coached. :-)
Grant KZ1W
On 7/5/2017 13:29 PM, Tom Osborne wrote:
Nothing to level. It's not a contest :-) 74
Tom W7WHY
On Jul 5, 2017 11:07 AM, "Russ Dearmore via TowerTalk" <
towertalk@contesting.com> wrote:
I was wondering if in the past FD was regulated to only wire antennas.
It would seem to be a way to level the playing field for all participants
and add a stealthy aspect to the weekend. There's something about aluminum
beams and even verticals that seem a bit out of place when considering that
we are practicing for dire emergency situations. Although I don't see us
being invaded anytime soon (Hi) the added consideration would give a bit
more meaning to the exercise... Possibly an additional weekend contest
with these points emphasized or additional points awarded in some manner to
the existing field day. (I haven't read all the rules on FD so please
forgive me if those rules already exist). By the way I'm not suggesting
that anyone is doing anything improper by using aluminum. A fun sprint
type contest would be to use battery powered radios like military models
until all batteries expired. Just some ideas to challenge us to improve
our sport... Russ K5ZZR
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