I suspect a "24 Hour" category would show very positive numbers initially. I'm doubtful there would be this sudden surge of "Casual Joe" type ops (they typically get on when they get on) but maybe a
K9NW suggested: And then one weekend a renegade "48 Hour Guy" with all his stacks and SO2R and other evil gadgetry invades the category because he finds he can still get his competitive fix and not h
Or how about yeah another new category. The contest window is still the full 48 hours. But you cant operate more than 24. Skill strategy, comes in now. Not just the biggest signal. But when is best t
It would be a fun contest for 90 percent of the people and a boring one for 10 percent and this would be bad? I didn't look up the numbers. If 90 percent of Marathon runners dropped out at the 13 mil
Why would all the 24 hour guys work the first 24 hours of the contest? That doesn't make any sense at all. Much more likely is that they would try to pick hours that optimized propagation for contact
People run in marathons and hate the last part of the run. However, they do it for the same reasons I and some of the other "iron butts" do a full 48 or close to it. It's a challenge.... a rare combi
I'll add my support for shorter time periods. Few of us have the stamina or interest to do all-nighters. If there had been a 24 or 12 hour competition in WPX, I might have been motivated today to tur
Just how many catagories do we want? There are too many now. Lets make it a Low Band /High band entry-- 160,80,40, (Lowband)....then let's make that assisted, non assisted, then lets make that LP/HP,
I'm not saying that a full 48 hour effort isn't fun and challenging for some, but catering ONLY to the less than 1% who fall into that category seems misdirected to me. What I don't understand is why
Why are there "too many" categories now? It's not like participants are segregated on the playing field ... we all send the same reports and work the same frequencies in an almost totally transparent
K4XS wrote: People run in marathons and hate the last part of the run. However, they do it for the same reasons I and some of the other "iron butts" do a full 48 or close to it. It's a challenge....
Indeed. So why did the ARRL reject the idea of Single-Op (Assisted) categories for IARU, ARRL 160 and ARRL 10? Too expensive mailing out all of those additional certificates, they said. No wonder, si
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:21:36 -0400
I'm not saying that a full 48 hour effort isn't fun and challenging for some, but catering ONLY to the less than 1% who fall into that category seems misdirected to me. What I don't understand is why
Nearly all the marathon runners actually finish the race. In contesting, we have nearly 90 percent of the runners failing to complete the race. Mike W0MU On 3/31/2013 4:38 PM, Cqtestk4xs@aol.com wrot
What race are you talking about? The winner of a contest has the most points regardless of how many hours he/she operates. The contest race is not sitting in the chair for the full duration but achie
So you say that a 24-hour category would push people into daylight operating, diminishing night-time activity, and Bill (K4XS) complains that it would make the slow times on Sunday even worse. Who's
Ahh ... you mean that more people will do what they actually prefer to do instead of what they might feel compelled to do. I didn't realize that was a bad thing for a hobby. I think it's pretty funny
How about looking at the statistics for those major worldwide contests that are already 24 hours long, such as the IARU HF, and Russian DX ? What percentage of participants currently operate more tha
I think that would be a worthwhile investigation / comparison. But I think the real question about creating more / longer activity is to identify and reward the basic motivations. If a participant cu
Last year we were trying to level the playing field by changing the scoring for nearly all of the contests [because everyone lives in a super DX QTH except "me" and "I" live in a "black hole" (please