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1. [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: <w1rm@comcast.net>; Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 18:21:59 -0500; 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 o; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00013.html (7,120 bytes)
2. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>; Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 01:55:32 +0000 (UTC); I'd think of it as "contest mellowing out". As a one radio/tribander guy in Ohio I long ago realized I'd never beat bigger, better equipped, and in some cases better operated, stations from W1. So I; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00015.html (10,227 bytes)
3. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: David Hachadorian <k6ll.dave@gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 22:49:40 -0700; Hi Pete, I'm in pretty much the same situation as you. I'm 79.5 years old, and my interest in ham radio is fading a bit. There are a lot of other things that I like to do, and I don't feel like I w; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00016.html (11,020 bytes)
4. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>; Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 20:30:29 -0800; Pete, I'm a year older, contesting since 1956 (although with MANY years time outs to have a life, run a biz, etc.), and I've long run into this issue, largely because my first serious station is is N; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00017.html (11,533 bytes)
5. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>; Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 22:39:40 -0400; Pete, I don?t have anything like 66 yrs of contesting like you do (more like 45 on again; off again) nor would I presume to have half the experience of some others that will likely weigh in on this t; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00018.html (10,127 bytes)
6. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: robert wa1fcn <wa1fcn@charter.net>; Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 21:23:27 -0600; 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 continu; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00019.html (9,878 bytes)
7. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: Ed W0YK <ed@w0yk.com>; Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2022 05:05:07 -0800; Hi Pete. For me, avoiding contest burnout has been due to enjoying the operating more than the result of winning. I've never felt my operating was perfect, so there's always been the challenge of im; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00020.html (8,963 bytes)
8. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: Barry W2UP <w2up.co@gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 06:37:45 -0700; I feel like a kid compared to you guys - I'm 65 :-) Anyway, I, too, no longer have the competitive contesting bug. I was never a fan of doing 48h marathons. However, in the 2000s decade I decided to; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00021.html (12,364 bytes)
9. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: <w1rm@comcast.net>; Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 09:24:25 -0500; Thanks, Ed. I do the FT8 WW Digi contest but as a single-band affair. I can't stay awake for 24 hours anymore (:-<). I've done single band 20 since the first one but this year, with conditions being; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00025.html (10,700 bytes)
10. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: Joe <nss@mwt.net>; Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 08:07:28 -0600; 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. My; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00026.html (11,352 bytes)
11. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: Drew Vonada-Smith <drew@whisperingwoods.org>; Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 17:33:04 +0000; Hi Pete, I have issues with anxiety and perhaps depression periodically, and have the burnout problem just as you describe. Right now, it's pretty bad related to stress from a lot of distasteful goin; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00028.html (12,162 bytes)
12. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: David Gilbert <ab7echo@gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 11:24:14 -0700; I wholeheartedly agree. There is a reason that video games are so very popular ... they use great visuals and involve tiered strategies of one sort or another. I have argued for years that ham radi; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00030.html (10,619 bytes)
13. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>; Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 13:18:56 -0600; _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00031.html (8,309 bytes)
14. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: "Naumann, Robert, W5OV" <W5OV@arrl.org>; Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 21:14:12 +0000; Joe, That's called the DXCC Award Program. https://www.arrl.org/dxcc 73, Bob W5OV --Original Message-- From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+w5ov=arrl.org@contesting.com> On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Saturd; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00037.html (12,922 bytes)
15. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: robert wa1fcn <wa1fcn@charter.net>; Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 11:12:29 -0600; GM Joe Well I was only kidding about the "over 70" because in my early 60's I had plenty of drive and stamina tho never enough to approach 48 hours maybe a maxi; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00043.html (12,982 bytes)
16. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: Dave Edmonds <dave@pkministrywebs.com>; Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 15:16:15 -0500; HI Pete, If you are looking for a challenge, I would give the State QSO Party Challenge a try for 2023. Visit stateqsoparty.com for rules etc. It is a year long competition which includes 47 state/pr; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00045.html (10,497 bytes)
17. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: <w1rm@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 17:38:26 -0500; Interesting idea Dave and I thank you for it. One reason I gave up on the CQ DX Marathon was it was a year-long event. Twice (perhaps 3 times) I came in second on CW only and never got so much as an; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00046.html (11,504 bytes)
18. [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: Kevan Nason <knason00@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 10:27:28 -0500; You will never regain the excitement of your first love, first car, first time diving a coral reef, or first decade of contesting. It just isnt possible. Nothing is my standard answer to non-conteste; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00048.html (11,684 bytes)
19. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: Gerry Hull <vy1aaa@vy1ja.ca>; Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 15:10:19 -0500; I understand, Pete. It's only been 40 or so years of contesting for me, and often worry about burnout. Different from most, I have spent the majority of my contest career as a multi-op operator. For; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00051.html (11,543 bytes)
20. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout (score: 1): Author: Zack Widup <w9sz.zack@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 12:12:00 -0600; I have so much going on in my life these days that I find it difficult to spend much time in a contest. I was out of town over the SS Phone weekend and had to miss that one completely. I have been a; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2022-12/msg00053.html (10,848 bytes)

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