[Elecraft] Sweepstakes

[geoff allsup]

W1VE/VE1RM is the guy you're thinking of - www.w1ve.com and the realtime 
scores site at www.getscores.org

72,
geoff - W1OH


Ken Alexander wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> 
> Contesting is one of the things I love to do that I'm
> no good at...skiing is another and golfing's on the
> list too.
> 
> Competing against yourself is excellent advice that
> you've already received.  There are a few other ways
> to make contesting more fun:
> 
> - Join a contest club.  You still operate at home on
> your own equipment, but your score becomes part of an
> aggregate club score.  The big advantage is that it
> puts you in touch with other contesters in your region
> from whom you can learn.  You'll see contest club
> scores listed in the results of many contests.
> 
> - An enormously motivating development is online
> reporting of your contest score.  The computer you use
> for logging (you are using logging saftware, aren't
> you?) has to be connected to the internet for this to
> work.  N1MM Logger, and probably several other loggers
> has a module that you activate that collects your
> score data from the logger and uploads it
> automatically to a score reporting website, where your
> score is listed with all other participants.
> 
> You can check out the website and see how you're doing
> relative to everyone else.  The first time I tried
> this I got into a race with a ham who was a few
> hundred points ahead of me.  I tried to catch him and
> did after a while.  Then I could see that he was
> pouring it on to try and get ahead of me again.  
> 
> We battled for hours for (something like) 763rd place,
> but it was great fun because he was a reachable
> target.  I looked him up on qrz.com and e-mailed him
> after the contest.  He said he had his eyes on me the
> whole time and was working hard to stay ahead. 
> 
> We both spent a lot more time in front of the radio
> and improved our scores a lot.  It was also a lot more
> fun, because after all QSOs = Fun.
> 
> Having said all this, I'll be darned if I can find the
> website!  It's run by a W1/VE1 and it'll probably come
> to me before long.  Maybe someone else on the list
> knows and will jump in, too.
> 
> Hope this is of interest.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Ken Alexander
> VE3HLS
> 
> 
> --- Bob Fish <rwfish at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I, like probably alot of you, have been doing some
>> casual contesting 
>> this weekend. Once again, I am amazed at how bad of
>> a contester I am. It 
>> isn't my rig or antenna. I have a K2/100 and a
>> decent antenna. When I 
>> call someone they almost always respond after the
>> first call. My cw 
>> skills are pretty good I can exchange contest info
>> at around 30wpm if I 
>> have to, although I run between 22 and 25wpm most of
>> the time. I try not 
>> to get distracted, another words I try to stay in
>> front of the radio. So 
>> I feel as if I should be, at least, competitive.
>> But, it happens every 
>> time. I sit down, eagerly awaiting the start of the
>> contest, ready to do 
>> battle, and get slaughtered. Within an hour or so I
>> am hopelessly 
>> behind. After 4 or 5 hours it is a joke. after 8 or
>> 10 hours every 
>> station I work has 600 contacts! Some of these guys
>> are averaging a 
>> contact a minute OVER 8 HOURS! I'm not mad, I am
>> just amazed. My best 
>> contact rate was about 30 an hour and that was only
>> for a couple of 
>> hours.I usually run a contact every 3 or 4 minutes.
>> So after a while I 
>> get discouraged and start getting up and watching
>> football for a few 
>> minutes or something else and then I really fall
>> behind.  I don't mind 
>> not winning, but I am getting clobbered by every one
>> I work by a factor 
>> of 7 or 8. I have to wonder, am I really that bad?
>> The funny thing is, 
>> by the time the next contest rolls around. I am
>> sitting in front of the 
>> radio, eagerly ready to do battle.......The lions
>> and Christians come to 
>> mind except the Christian weren't willing
>> participants.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Bob  K6GGO
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Geoff Allsup, W1OH     gallsup at whoi.edu  or  w1oh at whoi.edu
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution   Woods Hole, MA, USA
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