On Thu,1/8/2015 10:34 AM, Rich wrote:
Did some one help you put up your antenna?
Yep. But except for my SteppIR, I designed and built them all.
Did you finance your any of your stations equipment?
Nope.
Did some one bring you food or drink during the contest?
Nope.
Did you buy cable with connectors or did you put them on?
Never.
Contesting software can tell you what mults you need, an so on.
You get my point.
I certainly do -- some top contesters are appliance operators. But many
others are not. There are two great pieces in NCJ written by W9RE and
K9RS, two guys who built their own stations. My neighbor, K6XX, built
his excellent station pretty much all by himself, including clearing the
dense brush to make room for it (and did the tower climbing for me).
I believe the only way to reasonably define OUTSIDE assistance is a
device or method that tells you DURING the contest what freq a
particular station is currently using. Whether that be by cluster, a
text message, a phone call and so on.
A major reason I prefer to contest at home rather than from one of the
local super-station multiops is that I DID build it myself. I DO use
SCP, simply because that has become SOP for the rest of the players on
the field. I use my own CH files because they include MY mistakes, not
someone else's. :)
73, Jim K9YC
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