I don't know, honestly. I may have worked a few of the ARRL tests way back
when but I know that I soon soured of them. I could never understand why
the rest of the world would want to work Ws and VEs when there were
literally thousands of us. Perhaps DX was working on WAS or WAVE or
whatever award they were chasing. But I certainly wasn't particularly
interested in working mostly EU and just a few others who might break
through the NA QRM.
Today I work contests and compete only with myself. No more 40 (or perhaps
42) out of 48 hours in a weekend. My competition with me is based on my
ability to stay awake and do S&P in contests like All Asia, BERU, CQ (WW
SSB/CW and WPX SSB/CW, WAE, a couple of QSO parties and maybe a few others
if the mood strikes.
But ARRL tests certainly aren't my interest. However, as has been pointed
out the ARRL tests are for NA and if you want to work them, go right ahead.
73
Al, VE1AL
-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Peter Chamalian
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 9:02 AM
To: 'Joe Fitzgerald'; hankkier@aol.com
Cc: yccc@yccc.org; cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] [YCCC] Why ARRL SSB Contest is Not My Favorite -
my 2 cents
Think back to when you first started in contesting. ARRL DX was fun.
There were plenty of stations you could work because you had a modest
station.
You learned a lot and had fun doing it. You may even remember the days
when ARRL DX was two weekends long and we had a 5-station per country
quota!
Yeah, I remember that. I also remember Friday night tuning across 40 CW
and hearing a G with a pileup of W's, a DL with a similar pileup and W4KFC
with a pileup of EU. Those were the days!
But you grew. You expanded your station with bigger antennas and higher
ones, too. Your rig is better and you are a better operator too. Now you
would work more DX farther away and slowly contests like CQWW became more
fun and interesting because you could compete.
Every contest has its place and while for some, ARRL DX is tame and rather
boring with the lack of rarer DX, it very much has a solid place in the
contest scheme.
Pete, W1RM
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Fitzgerald [mailto:jfitzgerald@alum.wpi.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 9:44 PM
To: hankkier@aol.com
Cc: yccc@yccc.org; cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] [YCCC] Why ARRL SSB Contest is Not My Favorite
On 3/5/2013 6:45 PM, hankkier@aol.com wrote:
> 1 - almost impossible to find a run frequency without stepping on
someone's toes, except on 10 meters
One memorable moment for me was a K2 station that graciously gave me his
20M run frequency late Sunday afternoon. Said he had worked 300 Q's on
that frequency, but just got the call that the spare ribs were done!
>
> 5 - keep working the same stations on the same bands that we have
> worked
countless times before
>
>
Curiously that is one of the things I like about it. Run rates were low
enough Sunday afternoon that I was able to celebrate with various dx
stations "Nice to see you again for N bands!" It's especially fun when N=6
-Joe KM1P
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