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Re: [CQ-Contest] [YCCC] Why ARRL SSB Contest is Not My Favorite

To: hankkier@aol.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] [YCCC] Why ARRL SSB Contest is Not My Favorite
From: k1vv@comcast.net
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 21:45:28 +0000 (UTC)
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We don't think we will ever get bored with ham radio..... even after 58 years 
on the bands .... 


It still has that "mysterious" something to it ........ 


If I make noise or blow a horn ... or even flash a light .... some one may hear 
or see it 4 or 5 houses away ... 


Yet with no more power than a 100 watt light bulb .... which you might see a 
mile away on a clear night .... 


I can talk to to some one 12,000 miles away .... 


There is "nothing" else like it that I can do sitting in my home ..... 


I do not have to leave the house .... do not need special shoes ...weather is 
not an issue ... 


I do not need some one on the other side of a net .... 


.....or try to put a small white ball into a hole in the ground ... with 
totally inadequate tools . 


...... something I would never get good at .. no matter how many years ..... 


We can achieve many personal goal that no one cares about but me ... WAS WAC 
... DXCC... Honor Roll .. etc.. 


And above all that it is STILL FUN ..... Contests .... DX ... State QSO Parties 
...Lighthouse Operating .. 


There is always something .... 


KB Whitey K1VV / W1AA 




----- Original Message -----
From: hankkier@aol.com 
To: cq-contest@contesting.com, yccc@yccc.org 
Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 2:28:39 PM 
Subject: [YCCC] Why ARRL SSB Contest is Not My Favorite 


Didn't expect my thread to generate so much interest! Incidentally, keep 
forgetting that my email doesn't include my call, so wasn't identified as the 
author - I'm KF2O, Hank Kiernan. 

Just to throw something out as a POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENT (?): 

what if W/VEs were only allowed to call CQ or solicit contacts some other way, 
or do anything else to hold a frequency (=run) on the odd numbered hours, and 
DX only on the even numbered hours? 

My thought here is that this might reduce the problem for the non 
super-stations on both sides of finding a run frequency without stepping on 
toes. I THINK (?) it might also make it much more possible for the weaker 
stations (on both sides) to successfully S&P by reducing QRM level somewhat. 
all of which makes for less "boring", to me at least. probably makes the 
strategy aspects a little more interesting for the competitive stations - what 
to do during the S&Ping hours. 

S&Ping would be OK full-time of course. and might not make the rule effective 
on 160 meter band, since QRM and running is not nearly the problem there...plus 
propagation to a given area is often short-lived and might be missed if 
restricted from CQing. 

I'm sure there are minuses to this, which we'll hear about! 

Hank KF2O 


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