I think you need to be more specifically asking about the **CW** SS.
The phone SS seems to have a reasonably good number of newcomers.
And the short answer will be that (a) it takes better CW skills than a lot of
other contests, and that (b) 24/30 hours is a bit long for a domestic contest.
73 - Jim K8MR
> On Mar 14, 2018, at 8:19 PM, John Geiger <af5cc2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Do we know why there are fewer new contesters doing the SS than other
> contests? Maybe the long exchange? Any other things turning off new
> licensees from this contest?
>
> 73 John AF5CC
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:32 AM, Ed Sawyer <sawyered@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> I think that SS has a number of fundamental issues in todays contesting
>> environment. Not sure that changing the start and end times changes it.
>>
>>
>>
>> It seems that virtually all of the participants have been doing SS for
>> decades and very few new people are adding in.
>>
>>
>>
>> If the people that do it every year want changes, great. But I think that
>> the notion it makes SS less slow on Sunday, or increases participation are
>> misguided.
>>
>>
>>
>> The concept of allowing more than one QSO per band has merit to me, but I
>> have never been an SS fan due to the SLOW 50% of the contest.
>>
>>
>>
>> 73
>>
>>
>>
>> Ed N1UR
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