[Elecraft] WRTC - Rig choices for the contest explained!

[Lu Romero]

I was wondering when you would chime in, Amigo!

The winners used FT450's.  That ought to tell you the
caliber of those operators :)

Anyway, lets argue about something more substantiatable,
like Religion or Politics  :)

-lu-

----- Original Message Follows -----
From: Hector Padron <ad4c2008 at yahoo.com>
To: lromero at ij.net
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] WRTC - Rig choices for the contest
explained!
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:30:17 -0700 (PDT)

>That might be the opinion of K3LR of chosing Icom radios
>for contesting but here in FL the big contesters are all
>replacing their IC-7700/7800 and FT-1000MP for K3's because
>after all the tests done in the last contests K3 has been
>better in performance within a very crowded band. Its just
>a matter of opinions and operating skills. Â 
>AD4C
>Â 
>
>
>"If you see a driver handling a cell phone on her/his hands
>while driving,do please stay away from that vehicle,its a
>moving bomb.Your life is at danger.Keep yourself and your
>family alive"
>
>--- On Sun, 7/18/10, Lu Romero <lromero at ij.net> wrote:
>
>
>From: Lu Romero <lromero at ij.net>
>Subject: [Elecraft] WRTC - Rig choices for the contest
>explained! To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 8:48 AM
>
>
>All:
>
>Well, I certainly poked a rather large stick into the
>Amateur Radio Contesting ant hill, didnt I?  Lots of
ants
>are scurrying around wondering if my between-the-lines
>conjecture is a seachange for some.
>
>Aparently, its not.  
>
>Tim Duffy, K3LR, personally sent me an email regarding my
>post's questions (!).  He asked that I relay his
reasons
>for using a K3 in WRTC to all of you.  I have cut them
and
>pasted them in this post.  His reasons are certainly
>plausible.  They are as follows (the enphasis is not
mine,
>this is a literal cut and paste):
>
>----------- snip -------------
>
>K3LR was not the WRTC TEAM LEADER – K3LR was a TEAM
MATE
>of N2NT. As a TEAM MATE K3LR did not have the final
>decision on what radios would be used by our team. K3LR
>used the radios that the TEAM LEADER selected.
>
>However, it was good for K3LR to use a K3 (for the first
>time). K3LR has been asked many times how a K3 compares to
>the Icom IC 7800 and IC 7700. Now K3LR knows the
>operational “contest” differences between the
Icom
>radios and a K3. 
>
>So the result is that the K3LR Multi Multi station will
>STAY 100% Icom IC7800 and IC7700!
>
>------------ snip -----------
>
>So there you have it.   
>
>I will leave it to others in the contesting ecosystem to
>add any more conjecture to my thoughts.  I had valid
>questions and opinions, and I got a plausible answer.
>
>This discussion has helped me remember why my wife suggests
>that I wear my wedding ring when I travel out of town and
>elbows me in the ribs when my flirtations with other ladies
>at cocktail parties cross her "line of reasonableness"... 
>:)Â  
>
>Best 73
>
>Lu Romero - W4LT
>
>
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