The March/April 2018 NCJ has an article by Al, K0AD and Bill, W0OR suggesting changes to Sweepstakes. Al suggests moving the start time up 4 hours. This makes a lot of sense to me. More daylight hour
Author: jpescatore--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 06:16:56 -0400
I like the idea of moving the start time up to some time that is still fair enough for west coasters. That would be a low impact change, doesn't impact traditional scores in any major way, etc. Give
SS CW is the acme of my ham radio year. (SS SSB and RAC Canada Day are tied for 2nd and 3rd.) Particularly from a CW perspective, I do not find Sunday to be the doldrums. As a third-tier op with a fo
Ken, et al, Please keep in mind that SS is the "ARRL November Sweepstakes", so HQ should be brought into this discussion. I suggest you bring Bart, W9JJ, the League's Contest Manager, and Dennis, W1U
Theoretically, I also like moving the time up. But note that doing so would not be neutral with regard to scores. Operators competing from the southwest and west will have more hours to run on 10, 15
I have not read the article yet however I am in favor with ending the contest earlier. On the east coast Sweepstakes ends at 10:00pm. This is way too late to have dinner with the XYL afterwards and l
I haven't received my NCJ yet, but increasing the proportion of daylight hours will further increase the advantage of western or Carribean (or VY2) stations because of the skip zones on the high band
It is impossible to accurately or intelligently comment on the suggestions in the article if one is unable to access it. If the suggestions truly have any merit, as I'm sure they do, and they will be
Author: Jim Stahl via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 09:41:39 -0400
I, too, have not yet received the new NCJ, but I do agree with K3ZJ and N4OGW about the detrimental effects of an earlier time to those on the east coast. By now were too old to have our egos helped
Author: Bill via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:22:26 -0400
Make the starting time earlier to help the east coast? You gotta be kidding me. Move the starting time earlier and you give the west coast and KH6 even more time to rack up more Qs on 15 and then 10
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 09:29:18 -0400
Agreed. What is a Texas and west coast contest will become an even greater Texas and west coast contest. 73 Rich NN3W On 3/14/2018 9:04 AM, RT Clay wrote: I haven't received my NCJ yet, but increasin
I think that SS has a number of fundamental issues in todays contesting environment. Not sure that changing the start and end times changes it. It seems that virtually all of the participants have be
You wanna make a change to SS? How about allowing NB, NS and PEI guys to send their ACTUAL Province and not some arbitrary RAC designation? (mar) Others -all- get to send their State/Province...still
Personally, I think its long exchange and that you cant work people more than once in the contest. So rates slow down. Many of the aspects that the SS crowd likes about the contest. But that just my
Break up VO1 and VO2 into different sections. Do the same for VY1, VY0 and VE8. Now that would make getting a sweep a real challenge!! 73 John AF5CC _______________________________________________ CQ
I am a relative newbie to sweepstakes, but gosh....shouldn't we all agree to make whatever changes are possible to help the unfortunate souls that live on the east coast. After all this is a contest
Do we know why there are fewer new contesters doing the SS than other contests? Maybe the long exchange? Any other things turning off new licensees from this contest? 73 John AF5CC __________________
I'm mostly in it for the sweep as a personal challenge, and so I can add to my sweep coffee cup collection. -- Chuck Milam, N9KY N9KY@arrl.net _______________________________________________ CQ-Conte
I LOVE SS BECAUSE of the LONG EXCHANGE! It's not some simple brain dead 59 bla bla exchange that the anti contesters just love to make fun of. But I know I'm different! I also liked the old Novice Ro
It isn't just new contesters that are turned off by those two things. Some of us who have been around awhile are also. Granted, I'm not as active as the big guns, but I would probably get more involv