LF: The GII3KEV Award

["Walter Blanchard" <blanch@pncl.co.uk>]

Mal,

Since you're the fount of all knowledge on what constitutes a proper LF
QSO why don't you offer an award of your own?  Transatlantic has
been pre-empted so it would have to be for the BIG one - Europe or USA to
Australia/NZ.  With proper conditions like :

1.

      

Only Morse at 25 wpm
to be used.
2.

      

Transmitters and
antennas to be designed and built solely by the operator himself. 
Any outside help like using ready-mix concrete for the mast footings to
cause instant disqualification.
3.

      

The use of anything
involving digits or computers totally barred. To include receivers with
digital readouts.
4.

      

Full information
exchange must include what the weather's like; what the kids have been up
to; the incompetency and idiocy of practically all other amateurs; etc,
etc. The usual stuff.
5.

      

No time limit on
length of QSO; in fact, extra marks if it goes on for several 
hours.

Of course, you'd have to offer a decent prize. Say, £10,000 for a minimum
one-minute contact rising to £100,000 for one lasting several hours. Come
to think of it, you could make that £1,000,000 - it would be safe enough.

Unfortunately you would be debarred from winning your own award but
that's life.

Walter gg3jkv  (when DID the RA authorise these double-letter
callsigns?)