For me, Field Day is how I cut my eye teeth on contesting, so I
consider it a contest. But it is also so much more: Public
outreach, Party, Camping trip, Emergency preparedness drill,
etc. etc. etc.
On the other hand, I generally don't enter contests to try to
have a big score. I enter them to have fun. (But big scores are
fun too.) For example, to test my digital station for Field Day,
I entered the Ukrainian RTTY contest. Working in that contest
got all the bugs worked out of my setup, and reminded me how to
get around the bugs in the computer software I used. The big
bonus was two ATNOs.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 6/27/16 at 10:28 AM, [email protected] (Jim Rodenkirch) wrote:
I see you're a "FD isn't a contest" devote.....you've sipped the ARRL
'non-contest' kool-aid....yeah, sure....that's why the arrl scores entries,
'cuz it's not a contest....hi hi
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