Ron wrote:
"How do we make it interesting for these "little" guns?"
I have made this suggestion on an individual level to at least one
organizer, but I'm going public with it now:
I propose contest organizers consider placing a limit on the percentage of
contacts made by "running", or limit the number of hours of time spent running.
This is a VERY enforceable rule since most logs show the actual operating
frequency of the contacts. There are enough logs submitted with frequency
data that it may even be possible to reverse-engineer the frequencies of
logs that don't have that data as well.
Case in point: review the fastest run rates for 2012 CQWW Phone M/2 at
pileup.ru. The 340 rate I helped put up at KM1W was the fastest hourly rate
for any contiguous US station, yet half an hour of the 15m QSOs were S&P.
We all know how awful it is to tune around at 1800z on the second day of a
48-hour contest and the band is filled with big guns all calling CQ with no
takers. If more second-tier stations were able to establish running, I bet
we'd get 20% more combined total contacts in the entire event, because
those folks would operate more. And there's a LOT more of them than the
big-guns tying up the bands and effectively pre-empting them from getting a
run going. I believe this stifles the smaller stations.
-- KA1IOR
"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things." --J. Cocteau
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