The ARRL could take the lead in creating an Unlimited class where anything goes, which would at least by implication recognize the folks like me who would rather engineer around the limitations of their QTH and get the DXCC awards the old fashioned way. Seems to me the awards are traditionally intended to recognize stick-to-it-tive-ness, not my discretionary income.
If I can get K1N with a 100W, no sub-rx, a modest yagi, and good strategy advice from my CWOPS advisor, why should I compete in the same class as someone who pulls out all the technology stops? Bad enough he's in the pileup trying to out-shout me. Paraphrasing N1MM's startup banner: This advice is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, not even the implication that it will be useful for any particular purpose. ;^) -- de AB1VL NAQCC #6799 ab1vl.com _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband