When SS started, daylight savings time ended much earlier in the fall.
-- Tom
At 09:23 AM 11/9/2017, RT Clay wrote:
>> One thing that I wonder - why does SS start so late on Saturday? It's 2 PM
>> Pacific and 5 PM Eastern, which leads
>> to a Sunday eve/night finish for most folks. If it started 3 or 4 hours
>> earlier, not only would it be more "prime
>> time" both days, but we'd all probably enjoy the extra three hours of
>> propagation on 20 M (and maybe 15) at
>> the start. This seems like an easy, non-controversial change that will make
>> the final few hours of the contest
>> more user-friendly for almost everyone.
>
>N4OGW:
>NO. This will just increase the already large advantage of being out west.
>While 15m Sweepstakes propagation might be enjoyable to stations out west, if
>you live in the east coast or midwest it is not. From here for example in
>northern MS, normally my skip zone on 15m extends all the way to about W1/CT.
>There is no way for eastern stations to work other SS participants in the
>eastern half of the country on 15/10. If any of these stations are also not on
>the low bands, we have no way to work them at all. Shifting the times earlier
>and removing the after sunset time on Sunday will give even less incentive for
>eastern stations to get on.
>
>I don't know if this was the original intent, but with 30 total hours, the
>start and finish times of SS are such that a location in the middle of the
>country gets roughly equal amounts of daytime and nightime during the contest.
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