After reading John AE5X blog did I become aware of the interesting activity refered to in the link below.
This looks like an interesting activity, almost like contesting from the slow lane.
Every year one starts off fresh with a clean slate and a new set of goals.
The “formula class” might appeal to many radio amateurs with limited
resources (basic antennas and without power amplifiers).
I fail to understand why a rotatable dipole is grouped
with gain antennas: Yagi, Quads and the like. A dipole is dipole and it has no
gain. In fact it serves as the base reference when comparing antennas. I think
that restriction is daft.
would love to participate as formula 1, but I do not have
gain antennas. Plan-B would be to participate as formula 2, but a rotatable
dipole is not permissible. Just goes to prove it is impossible to please
everyone.
You may be interested in the book "A Year of DX" by W9KNI, which documents the author's participation in the DX Marathon for one year. I enjoyed it!
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Jason NT7S
Jason,
ReplyDeleteI should be ashamed. I have both the books by Bob Locher W9KNI. I have read most of the “The Complete DX’er” and found many valuable pointers in the book. I have not got around to reading “The DX Marathon for one year” yet.
Thanks for the info; I will now certainly make a point of reading it.
The best part of DX Marathon is that it provides incentive to re-work all the entities you might otherwise tune on by since you've worked them before.
ReplyDeleteHi Pierre
ReplyDeletePlease supply the link where u read the rules about rotating dipole please.
ZS6AF
Johan
Johan,
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dxmarathon.com/Rules/2013/2013%20Rules.htm