Re: [CQ-Contest] So Sunday Sucked?

[Zack Widup <w9sz.zack@gmail.com>]

There are a lot of other contests that do that. I like the uniqueness
of SS. I think that point should stay the same.

At this point in the solar cycle, I guess it's going to be mainly a
low band contest for a few years. I have to get some sort of antenna
for 80 and for 160 that works.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Paul Schaffenberger via CQ-Contest
<cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote:
> How about making SS more fun by allowing one qso per band?  I watched a 
> fairly good 15M band dry up simply because there was not enough activity.  
> The signals were plenty loud from all directions, just no interest. I've 
> always liked contests where there are more potential contacts than a mere 
> mortal can work.  This is the way SS was in the early 60s, when I first 
> started contesting.  For those who have a limited antenna situation, also 
> allow single-band entries. Who knows, 10M may even spring to life?  Paul, K5AF
>
> In a message dated 11/6/2017 7:59:49 PM Central Standard Time, 
> af5cc2@gmail.com writes:
>
>
>  I am not so thrilled about such a change also. There are already way too 
> many clubs that only exist on paper so someone can have another 1 or 12 
> callsigns to use. This would just promote such activity. I wish the FCC would 
> do away with club licenses. We didn't have them for most of the 80s and 
> everything still seemed to work ok. On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Ron 
> Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw@verizon.net> wrote: > A rule change to permit the 
> appearance of additional activity, by > manufacturing contacts under a second 
> or third or fourth callsign? > > > Doesn't strike me as a good idea. > > > I 
> think a better idea would be to try and recruit more people to operate > in 
> Sweepstakes. In other words, actually increase activity with an > increase in 
> operators, not an increase merely in callsigns. > > > 73, ron W3WN > > > > > 
> > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Stahl via CQ-Contest 
> <cq-contest@contesting.com> > To: Alan Dewey via CQ-Contest 
> <cq-contest@contesting.com> > Sent: Mon, Nov 6, 2017 10:17 am > Subject: 
> [CQ-Contest] So Sunday Sucked? > > For all who stuck it out to the bitter end 
> in SS, it is clear that it is > time for a rules update for ARRL contests, 
> specifically doing away with > general rules 3.3 and 3.5:3.3.An operator may 
> not use more than one call > sign from any given location during the contest 
> period.3.5.A transmitter > used to contact one or more stations may not be 
> subsequently used under any > other call during the contest period, except 
> for family stations where more > than one call has been issued, and then only 
> if the second call sign is > used by a different operator. (The intent of 
> this rule is to accommodate > family members who must share a rig and to 
> prohibit manufactured or > artificial contacts.)------------------------As 
> many of you are aware, > for many years I’ve been doing “Single Operator 
> Multi Station” efforts in > SS, typically operating from four different 
> stations in an effort to turn > SS into a 24 hour ratefest. Now that I’m a 
> Florida snowbird, that has been > reduced to two efforts, this year a QRP 
> effort as K8MR with the KX3 from a > waterfront parking area, and a LP effort 
> with the K3 from the condo as > W3USA.It was a lot more fun to be working 
> people in the second effort from > W3USA who I had previously worked from 
> K8MR. I’m sure nobody was bothered > that I gave them an extra QSO by using 
> two stations.My take is that these > rules were put in many years ago to 
> prevent “manufactured” contacts by > friends, fellow club members or whoever. 
> In the days of paper logs that may > have made sense. But with today’s log 
> checking it is a lot easier to find > suspicious manufactured contacts. Even 
> though a person “ manufacturing” a > few QSOs is not likely to send in a log 
> of those QSOs.Some reasonable > limits might be in order, such as a minimum 
> off time from a previous call > before it could be used again, or even not 
> allowing any return to using a > previous call. But if a few hundred people 
> were to decide on Sunday > afternoon (or whenever) to fire up their stations 
> with a new call, and have > fun running some good rates while giving the full 
> time folks new people > somebody to work, would anybody really mind? 73 - Jim 
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