I agree that activity has hit an all time low.
I've been doing Sprint since the 80s and unless you got over 300 Qs you
lost and might not even make top 5.
In the Sprint last Saturday I had a malfunction of my 40 meter antenna
after only 5 or so Qs, leaving only 20 (which had pretty well petered out) and
80 which was nil for activity. Having only made a miserable 90+ Qs in
almost two hours I decided to throw in the towel. Boring!!!
In the last few Sprints it has been pretty much begging to get Qs and then
the top guys only made around 240-250 Qs, many of them begging Qs.
This used to be a great contest and it's said the contest has become a
shell of its old self.
Bill K4XS/KH7XS
In a message dated 9/15/2014 8:42:47 P.M. Coordinated Universal Time,
widelitz@gte.net writes:
I was one of the former regulars who didn't participate in this SSB Sprint.
The reason is that I have found the last two hours of the past few SSB
Sprints torture due to limited activity. It seems like a vicious circle.
Less activity begets less activity. SCCC didn't even send out an invite to
be on a team for this one.
IMHO, the way to revitalize the SSB Sprint is to get contest clubs to rally
members to get on teams. Ten teams of ten members is worth a potential
additional 300 QSOs.
How about this: I'll sponsor a trophy for the highest scoring member of a
contest club's SECOND team, providing at least 5 contest clubs have two
teams of 10 members and each member of each team makes at least 50 QSOs.
Maybe a 3-D printed statue of a sprinter carrying a microphone instead of
a
baton???:)
73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
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