I LOVE SS BECAUSE of the LONG EXCHANGE!
It's not some simple brain dead 59 bla bla exchange that the anti
contesters just love to make fun of.
But I know I'm different! I also liked the old Novice Roundup that
lasted TEN DAYS!
The old Novice Roundup required you to learn and understand
propagation. It was NOT just brute force get on and make contacts.
You had to decide WHEN to get on. And on what bands.
Is getting on at 3 AM Tuesday morning a good time? Or is a Saturday
afternoon at 3 PM Better? Say, You still need Mainly seven land
multipliers, what time and what band will give the greatest chance for
propagation into seven land for you and your station!
A contest that has strategy not just brute force would be really cool!
I really never had gotten the feelings of the Sunday doldrums in SS.
But of course, I have done also many a VHF/UHF contests. Where on
Sunday one QSO a Hour is great!
Joe WB9SBD
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On 3/14/2018 7:19 PM, John Geiger 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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