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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