Quality versus Quantity
22 February 2012 | by 
“Quality and Ham spirit is better than Quantity” wrote Rudy HB9CCL on his QRZ.com page. “No Contests!” said Rudy. I am no contester either. In the weekends I spent more time with the family and I do other social activities. One or two qso’s daily is fine for me. We had a nice qso on 30 meter with CW. I was running 5 watts. My Sand Piper MV-5+3 antenna works very well on 30 meter. With WSPR this morning I was spotted in Australia and USA. Yesterday I worked OM7OM from Slovak Republic with PSK31 on 20 meter.
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I used to hate contests and in many respects still do. But now that I’m in my 40′s have 4 and soon 5 kids, I don’t really have time for anything else. So I do understand it. If you are interesting I will rag chew a little, though…
So as long as you are polite while contesting I don’t really see it as a wrong if you try to contact as many stations as possible in a given time. It’s kinda fun if you don’t take it too seriously.
My only complaint is there never seems to be a single weekend w/o a contest running! I suppose that’s what the WARC bands are for tho…
Fred W0FMS
Contesting good mental exercise for the brain. a couple hours is fine & work a few new ones.Its not going ahead of family tho. Never found a better hobby & its still fun ! art
Hi Fred,
I have youngsters here running around in the weekends. Do the groceries on Saturday, family visits, friends who drop by, etc. So I have seldom the time to do a complete contest. I do not judge those who doing a contest. I just went to 30 or 17 meters, no problem at all. Have fun! 73 Paul
Hi Art, I believe so, but I am a bit lazy…
but sometimes a give some points away, and wonder if they can hear my qrp signal, and often they do while contesting. 73 Paul