Sixteen years ago N6AA introduced us to Little Billy, 9 Holes, and World Peace. http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-03/msg00237.html 73, de Hans, K0HB http://k0hb.spaces.live.
None...I don't like many of those contest. But I am not advocating short contest windows. I enjoy the 36 and 48 hour contests. Ed N1UR How many shortened-time contests did you operate in 2008 Ed? I d
How much is enough interest? In IOTA 2008 the 12h-categories had 783 single-op-logs sent (World-Stations) and the 24h-categories had 496. The 24-h-DL-DX-RTTY-Contests 2003-2008 had 37 to 48 percent o
Chris, Its plenty of interest. That wasn't my point. The point is for all of the people on this reflector who are interested in these categories to join in and COMPETITIVELY contest in the 12 and 24
1% of the allband-single-ops operated 42-48 hours in WWDX-SSB 2006 and 1,9% operated 42-48 hours in WWDX-CW 2006 (http://www.dl8mbs.de/40984/45289.html) 73, Chris ____________________________________
I would expect if a 6-hour category was added, another increase in activity would be realized. This is about the length of the State QSO Parties that have become very popular. A shorter time period o
"By the way, the number of entries is not a meaningful number. If it were, the argument is to NOT change a contest like CQ WW." This comment and the link offered by Hans, is missing the point. Or may
It's not an election but add my vote for shorter period options in major contests. Six, ten, even twelve hour categories would significantly improve my motivation to get on and really try to max out
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:51:50 -0700
It was written: "By the way, the number of entries is not a meaningful number." Some folks may feel that way, but, unfortunately, that is not going to make it so. The measure of a contest's success h
"Maybe once I'm retired (if that ever happens!) and the weekends are not so "special," it will get easier to spend two days out of a week on a contest." Rowland... I AM retired and my personal experi
"The fact of the matter is that the shorter the contest, the more it favors a big gun station.... If we all hear a rare multiplier on 40 meters the first night, the fever of the pileup may be reduced
Beware of unintended consequences. Imagine for a moment a 12-hour Sweepstakes category. Would it bring in any additional competitors. My guess is "Yes, a few". Then imagine Sunday afternoon, when hal
Being a ham in Index I think by itself would justify going anywhere else to operate, even if only as far Startup or Goldbar, contest or no contest. ;^) But seriously, participation in contests is ult
I thought that's what everyone was already doing!? If it ain't fun, there's few things that will keep them in the chair. Maybe we need to consider a "Contesting Stimulus Package"? Submit a log with a
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:30:30 -0700
pileup with that exact though, "the crowd will be thinner tomorrow and I'll try for a contact then." shorten a contest". There is NO talk about shortening a contest. There should be no rule changes.
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:58:29 -0400
The only reservation I have about short recognition periods in contests is the possibility that it encourages people to operate only 6 hours (or 12 or 24) and quit, when they would have operated long
I agree that a fixed length sub-category might encourage this type of operation. One the other hand, if the "Best of X hours" (sliding window?) concept is used, the operator can concentrate on making
Cabrillo logs use a simple text format, so you can easily merge as many of them as you'd like using any text editor and then input the combined result into Excel to perform just about any analysis. U
I think one additional benefit of an option for a shorter time period would be the operating mode of the would be casual operator. I assume that many, operating for a few hours in a contest that cann