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Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout
From: robert wa1fcn <wa1fcn@charter.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 11:12:29 -0600
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    GM Joe

        Well I was only kidding about the "over 70"  because in my early 60's I had

            plenty of drive and stamina tho never enough to approach 48 hours maybe

              a maximum of 38.    In any case 73  BoB WA1FCN

On 12/3/2022 8:07 AM, Joe wrote:
Over 70? Geez How about over 60 guys?
The days of doing any of the CQWW Contests 48 hours is LONG gone!
Geez I can't even do 24 hour ones anymore.
6 to 8 hour tests non-stop is about my limit now.

Myself I'd like to see a contest where strategy plays a major role in the contest, not just pure stamina and or great stations. A contest where you get rewarded by working the harder ones to work more than the easy contacts.

A contest where the understanding propagation, plays a major role.

A contest where it is not a marathon.

Joe WB9SBD

On 12/2/2022 9:23 PM, robert wa1fcn wrote:

    GE Pete

    Your post hit close to home.  In the past 2 years I have begun to lose my

    desire to continue on. I have made over 500 Qso in 4 contest and just

    said ah I don't want to continue on.  The last major contest I have won

    was in 2015.  At least I am trying to hang in there for the mid level contest.

    If there is a way to combat this  I would like to know it also. Maybe a contest

    just for us over 70 guys.

                73  BoB WA1FCN


On 12/2/2022 5:21 PM, w1rm@comcast.net wrote:
I would like to have a serious discussion regarding contest burnout.  I'm not interested in nasty or snide comments but rather a real discussion on
those, like me, who are suffering from it and have overcome it.


I have been a serious contester since the late 1960s.  I am a CW guy and
have won CQWW, ARRL DX, and a bunch of others.  I have been a regular
participant in many of the majors for a very long time and have a wall full
of plaques for my efforts.


After 66 years of contesting, I'm faced with ben there, done that.  At 80 years old, I am not going to win anything, and I know it.  I don't have the stamina.  My station used to be very competitive, and it still is, but I don't do SO2R, I only have one beam/antenna per band.  I do have top-grade
gear, though.


So, I would appreciate some honest thoughts about how to combat contest
burnout.



Pete Chamalian, W1RM

W1RM@Comcast.net


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