Why would it matter? As long as everyone is under the same set of rules, I
don't see why it makes a difference to have a contiguous 24-hour block or a
non-contiguous 24-hour block. It's not like these folk would be competing
with the 48-hour guys, so why would they care if the 24-hour ops could
"cherry pick" their operating time?
If you had an "any 24 hours" contest, then those who picked well would win
and those who didn't wouldn't. Which is kind of the whole idea of
introducing an element of strategy, no?
You would have to retain the "listening time counts as operating time" rule,
however, because part of the strategy could not be to sit their the entire
48 hours and only start transmitting when things are hot.
Or, if you made it that you could choose which 24-hour block you wanted to
operate (one contiguous block, that is), the strategy would be there. Or you
could choose to identify the 24-hour period (say 1000Z to 0959Z, or
whatever).
It seems to me that for this category, WHAT you choose is not nearly as
important as THAT you choose one.
73, kelly, ve4xt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr@contesting.com>
To: "Ron Notarius WN3VAW" <wn3vaw@fyi.net>; <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 24 vs 48 - NO NEW CAREGORIES!
> At 10:40 AM 2/7/03 -0500, Ron Notarius WN3VAW wrote:
> >Jim has a point.
> >
> >For a 24 hour category to work w/in a 48 hour contest, it would have to
be a
> >contiguous 24 hour period. Exactly which one may be up to the contest
> >sponsors (ie UTC Saturday only, UTC Sunday Only, or any given 24 hour
> >period) but it needs to be one 24 hour block. Otherwise the "24 hour"
gang
> >can cherry pick the bands they want to maximize Q's.
>
>
> That's exactly why this category is potentially interesting. The
strategic
> decisions to be made are part of the fun.
>
>
> >Or to put it another way, there should be a way of distinguishing, IMHO,
> >YMMV, between someone who runs in the 24 Hour category and someone who
> >operates 24 Hours in the 48 Hour category. After all, isn't one of the
> >reasons for proposing this category is to accommodate those who only have
> >one 24 hour window available to operate on the contest weekend?
>
>
> No. It is to encourage people who would only operate 8 or 10 or 12 hours
> to make a 24-hour effort, composed of whatever time they can spare or
their
> bodies will let them do.
>
>
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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