Re: [CQ-Contest] So Sunday Sucked?

[Zack Widup <w9sz.zack@gmail.com>]

I guess most people started at contest start and were done in 24
hours? I had very few hours to operate; I thought I'd get a
significant number of QSO's during the last couple hours. I heard
nothing on 20 meters or above and only a handful of stations on 40.
They were much weaker than Saturday night around 0500Z. I thought my
antenna had fallen down.

At least I got to make 30 QSO's. I've missed the last couple years
because I couldn't determine how or where to put an antenna at my new
QTH. I finally got a vertical put up.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Jim Stahl via CQ-Contest
<cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote:
> For all who stuck it out to the bitter end in SS, it is clear that it is time 
> for a rules update for ARRL contests, specifically doing away with general 
> rules 3.3 and 3.5:
>
>
> 3.3.An operator may not use more than one call sign from any given location 
> during the contest period.
>
> 3.5.A transmitter used to contact one or more stations may not be 
> subsequently used under any other call during the contest period, except for 
> family stations where more than one call has been issued, and then only if 
> the second call sign is used by a different operator. (The intent of this 
> rule is to accommodate family members who must share a rig and to prohibit 
> manufactured or artificial contacts.)
> ------------------------
>
> As many of you are aware, for many years I’ve been doing “Single Operator 
> Multi Station” efforts in SS, typically operating from four different 
> stations in an effort to turn SS into a 24 hour ratefest. Now that I’m a 
> Florida snowbird, that has been reduced to two efforts, this year a QRP 
> effort as K8MR with the KX3 from a waterfront parking area, and a LP effort 
> with the K3 from the condo as W3USA.
>
> It was a lot more fun to be working people in the second effort from W3USA 
> who I had previously worked from K8MR. I’m sure nobody was bothered that I 
> gave them an extra QSO by using two stations.
>
> My take is that these rules were put in many years ago to prevent 
> “manufactured” contacts by friends, fellow club members or whoever. In the 
> days of paper logs that may have made sense. But with today’s log checking it 
> is a lot easier to find suspicious manufactured contacts. Even though a 
> person “ manufacturing” a few QSOs is not likely to send in a log of those 
> QSOs.
>
> Some reasonable limits might be in order, such as a minimum off time from a 
> previous call before it could be used again, or even not allowing any return 
> to using a previous call. But if a few hundred people were to decide on 
> Sunday afternoon (or whenever) to fire up their stations with a new call, and 
> have fun running some good rates while giving the full time folks new people 
> somebody to work, would anybody really mind?
>
>
> 73  -  Jim   K8MR
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