N4ZR Said: "But... the stats don't lie. Look at these log counts for the
last few years (all I could get easily off the ARRL web site"
Its worse than that. Lets look at Pete's statistics next to the ARRL DX
contest (W/VE logs submitted only):
SS ARRL DX
Year Phone CW Phone CW
2012 1675 1290 1869 1697
2011 1828 1404 1812 1624
2010 1793 1469 1691 1668
2009 2054 1555 1490 1392
Same sunspots for both, same CW excuses, same age demographics. You be the
judge. The ones that love it, love it. Many others don't. And there are
few if any adding to the "love it" category and the ones who have "loved it"
are getting fewer in number (literally) or less able to get on for it each
year.
Seriously, if you want to "recruit newbies" to domestic contesting, pick
NAQP, its way more fun. Alternatively, WPX is a great contest as it
includes "cool DX" and constant rate from "everyone works everyone" format.
73, Ed N1UR
Never liked SS even when I lived in Texas and Michigan. Apparently, I am
not the only one.
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