At least for the JA hams the 24-hour class might be very appealing. A lot of
them quit contesting Sunday night local time because they have to go to work
next morning. When the contest ends 24z on Sunday, it is 9am on Monday in
Japan. Most of the contesters want their sleep...and shut down their stations
8...12 hours before the contest ends.
We still wouldn't see more JA's during the last contest hours, but a 24-hour
class could mean a lot more SERIOUS participation from Japan, and possibly more
stations during the first half or 3/4 of the contest....
IMHO, FWIW
73,
Esa OH7WV
-----Original Message-----
From: ext Pete Smith [mailto:n4zr@contesting.com]
Sent: 04 February, 2003 14:30
To: Jimk8mr@aol.com; cq-contest@contesting.com; n0ax@arrl.org
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Categorically Speaking...
At 11:58 AM 2/3/03 -0500, Jimk8mr@aol.com wrote:
>If present contest sponsors aren't interested in adopting such alternative
>scoring system, it need not be the end of the idea. Other groups could pick
>up the ball... the only extra effort on the participant's end would be typing
>a second address in the "Send To:" field when they e-mail their logs. There
>would be a lot of work to be duplicated at the sponsor end, but that may be
>the price of progress.
From time to time, people suggest that it's time to have a separate class
in the big 2 DX contests for people who wish to operate only 24 hours
rather than 48. For those of us to whom this appeals, it seems as if it
would add an element of strategy, without the physical stress of doing the
iron-man thing. To date, the organizers have been uninterested.
Seems to me that, capitalizing on Jim's basic notion, I (or anyone else)
could offer a 24-hour plaque. The only requirements would be that an
entrant send in a copy of his log and an entry during the normal log
submission interval; then we would all wait until results are posted by the
organizers, and the winner would be decided based on their log-checking.
If there is sufficient interest expressed, I'd be willing to organize a
test of the idea, around the upcoming ARRL DX Contest. What say, folks?
73, Pete N4ZR
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