Maybe "bonus points" for "eyeball QSO's???????"
Have had many over the years roving about...
Eric
KB7DQH
>
>> On 6/24/09 1:10 PM, Les Rayburn
>> wrote:
>> > After the contest, I started thinking about the
>> experience. It
>> > occurred to me that I had a perfectly good Kenwood
>> TH-F6A in the
>> > truck that puts out five watts on 2, 440, and 222.
>> Would it have been
>> > legal and/or ethical to simply "hand" them the radio
>> and invite them
>> > to participate in the contest by working me on the
>> spot?
>
> Setting aside all of the ethics issues for a moment, I see a another
> rather serious flaw to the idea. Basically by handing someone an HT just
> to make some super short range "VHF Contest Q's" they will *not* be
> learning what the majority of VHF contesting really is. Nor does the
> practice have much chance of exposing potential VHF contest ops to the
> excitement and thrill of working someone on VHF+ hundreds of miles away.
> As such I seriously doubt any "chance op" making an accross the parking
> lot VHF contest Q like that will likely catch the bug from the
> "excitement" of having done so...
>
> A far better idea would be for the contest sponsors to allow those "drop
> by ops" to grab the mike/key of the rover's station and make a few Q's and
> to let them do so without forcing a category change for the rover op.
>
> Duane
> N9DG
>
>
>
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