Same here. I am an avid contester; but since the one time I did a clean sweep
in the SS a lifetime ago, I haven’t sent in a single log to a contest sponsor.
For me, the competition is me – can I do a one weekend WAS, or closer to a
clean sweep than I did last year? (Did that a couple of times, but not
lately.) Can I do a one weekend DXCC? (never did, but I might someday.) Can I
make my station, and my antenna farm (in truth, more like a window planter than
a farm) more effective and easier to operate this year than last? Can I get my
code proficiency up to the point that I can QSO faster than I can type? (Yup,
done that.) Can I integrate new equipment and gadgets just to see if they
help? Can I get Nebraska on ten meter CW which I have been chasing
unsuccessfully for a 5BWAS for almost ten years? (If I had ever done that I
wouldn’t have mentioned it.)
Using a decoder would be contrary to what I am trying to do. Likewise, relying
on spotting, working lists, renting other peoples’ stations, running full
illegal power, etc.
I don’t mean to disparage what anyone else does. I mean only to say that
contesting can be great fun despite what others are doing for their fun.
With one exception. I would like to personally pour a beer on the head of
operators (many of them DX) who program their memory keyers to send just their
call at utterly incomprehensible speeds although every other part of the
exchange is at 30 – 35 or so. I waste a lot of time just trying to figure out
who and what they are; and never has one responded well to a polite request to
QRS.
Ted, KN1CBR
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Message: 25
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:51:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Hisashi T Fujinaka <[email protected]>
To: Bob McGraw K4TAX <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] CW Contest and Elecraft K3s decoder
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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I view contests as "an easy way to work DX" for me. I'm on a city lot
that's getting noisier and noisier and CQWW is a good time to find a lot
of DX stations all on the air and willing to make a contact with this
guy with 100W into a vertical.
Not that I got on this year for either contest. :)
On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
> I have refrained from working ANY and ALL contests for several years.
> For that and other reasons. I view contests today in the same class as
> "road rage".
>
> 73
>
> Bob, K4TAX
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