Hi all, Ned Stearns, AA7A, of the CAC, posted the following on the SoCal Contest Club reflector: My comments: I think it's a great idea. We are always looking for ways to increase participation in co
Well, the BEST thing that could happen would be to convince the NFL to give every team a "bye" week on the 1st and 3rd weekends of November. It's pretty clear when kickoff on the 1PM East Coast game
I like the idea. I never enter a contest to WIN. My goal is to participate and do the best that "I" can. Since I am getting older, the idea of lengthy contests is not met with enthusiasm. This propos
Well, am still undecided on this one, but the responses have been informative. First of all, I don't see much help in the CW test. Not at 5 wpm...And on the SSB side, all these new entrants are alrea
The wisdom heard over and over again is that the time from 4 pm Saturday (Eastern time) start to first sleep cannot be made up. That particular stretch has been compromised nearly every SS I have eve
of gives It has been a long time since I've spent anywhere near a full contest at the radio. For health resaons now I never get past about 15 hours in the SS and have been down as low as 7 hours. The
long everyone Is there really ANY way to add participation in such a way that it only benefits the little guy and the big guns can't get in on it? You get 500 more stations on the air ANY time in the
Best way to keep interest up on Sunday is to be able work stations on more than one band. The "big dawgs" work everyone the first night and there's no one left to work on Sunday. 73 Tom W7WHY -- CQ-C
If you want a category to increase Sunday SS activity, feel free to join the one I "invented" some years back: Single Op Multi Station Although last year I only made it to three stations (I had been
This would fundamentally change the contest without getting any more people to operate the contest. I would hope the goal would be to get more people on the air, not just take the boredom out of Sun
Oh boy, I have stayed out of this until this comment was made. Now I can't resist anymore. The absolute worst thing that could ever happen to SS is to change it to Q's and/or mults once per band! Thi
I agree that new categories will inspire more stations to get on the air in SS. I also wholeheartedly agree with my good friend K9TM that SS is not broke, and that a lot of people clamoring for chang
As Dave/K8CC So eloquently put: "What I believe is needed is more local or regional recognition, or creative marketing by the clubs to get people on the air." cut -- The Tennessee Contest Group whole
The ARRL has recently added a new category to the Sweepstakes, and perhaps we should consider what happened... For the 1998 contest, the ARRL added a new category to the Sweepstakes: School Radio Clu
To which I would add -- We ALREADY HAVE a domestic contest which allows Qs and mults once per bad. It is called the North American QSO Party (NAQP), and runs every January and August for both CW and
<< Tennessee is not unique with this limitation. How about you other states out there that comprise a whole section, but the 175 mile circle catches only a handful of active contesters?? OK MI OH KY