I've done the same. But my point was to encourage the rulemakers to include as a general contest goal the encouragement of new contesters, and avoid making rules that become obstacles to that. 73, /J
Wow... I was a novice 50+ years ago as KN3FIV, and I do remember Novice Roundups. Lots of fun! It was perhaps the only contest where I ever thought I was actually competing with others just like me,
Many years ago, I was in the UK on a business trip and turned on the TV. There was a live telecast of a Fishing Tournament. The camera was focused on a fisherman, standing by the edge of a lake. For
IMHO, it might be helpful to look at Contesting from the "youth perspective", and see what might make it more interesting -- to them. Some obvious characteristics of "youth" (and other casual contest
IMHO, the root problem is that there are multiple types of contesters, ranging from the all-out contest-station go-for-the-gold top-gun entrants to the casual make-a-few-contacts-for-fun masses. Scor
Perhaps it's time to consider adding other digital modes to the contest? RTTY has been around for decades, PSK for a while, and newest methods such as FT8 are popular. SS used to be CW and AM; then S
IIRC, port assignments are just a convention adopted by "the community" back in the 80s. Unless something has changed since I was involved in that fray, there is no enforcement of such conventions. T
Perhaps it's worth another try at offering a solution....this battle has become the 100 Years War. Instead of "Multi" classifications, consider treating entries involving more than one operator as a
As humans, we all need some "help" to communicate. By ourselves, we are pretty poorly equipped to handle electromagnetic waves. Our built-in receivers are only able to receive in the 400-700 Terahert