Going past 10
At the Contest University I gave a talk on Contesting Ethics. During the section on obeying power limits, I made a reference to turning the knob past 10 to 11 as a metaphor for breaking the rules. Several people in the audience identified the movie this was from (Spinal Tap).
K1DG found a video clip from the movie that explains it all. Be sure to
watch all the way to the end.
And just because the knob on your amplifier might let you go to 11 (or 12, or 13, or even more), please remember contesting is a game and it only works if everyone trusts each other to stay within the rules!
Randy Thompson, K5ZD
(This originally appeared on the cq-contest mail list, May 21, 2008)