[PaQSO] 2005 Summary - Mobile Scores

[Bill Gallagher]

I feel for you, Mike!

Just teething pain, it will all work out in the end!

Here's hoping for record-breaking good conditions this
October!

Bill WA3RA



--- Michael Coslo <mjc5 at psu.edu> wrote:

> 
> On May 24, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Jimk8mr at aol.com wrote:
> 
> >
> > I also thought it odd that some mobile scores,
> including ours as  
> > W3USA/M,
> > were listed in both the Mobile and Multi-Op,
> Single-TX Division.
> >
> > We certainly compete under different circumstances
> than a fixed  
> > station
> > multi-single, such as the seeming winner N3AD and
> others.
> 
> 	W3USA was in both divisions, multi-op, and one
> transmitter.
> 
> 	If his score was listed as mobile only, with no
> mention of using   
> multiple OP's, imagine the complaints then! Is it
> fair for a mobile  
> entry who uses more than one OP to be in
> "competition" with ones who  
> use only one op? If so, then I guess that it would 
> be fair to  
> eliminate all the "multi" categories, or perhaps ban
> multi-op mobile.
> 
> 	We can take our pick as to which is most "unfair".
> 
> 	I am just about finished with this whole
> misbegotten adventure. It  
> was a major mistake for me to ever take on running
> the contest, save  
> that no one else was willing to do it at the time.
> It was a learning  
> experience, and I have learned some valuable
> lessons.
> 
> 	1. It is orders of magnitude better to be a
> participant than an  
> organizer.
> 
> 	2. Contesters are eating their young.
> 
> 	3. It may only be a minority, but it still wears
> you out.
> 
> 	I now fully understand why the last two chairmen
> quit, and one of  
> them has even stopped hamming altogether.
> 
> 	-73 de Mike KB3EIA -
> 
> 	
> 
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