Perhaps we're victims of our own technological success. As operators,
we've gotten so good at doing things like SO2R that we've exhausted the
pool of available QSOs earlier in the contest. A pool that is 30 hours
in depth can now effectively be worked down in 22 hours.
Interestingly, that problem does not exist on SSB. I could go through
the published results and find dozens of calls that I didn't work over
the course of a weekend.
73 Rich NN3W
On 11/9/2017 7:53 AM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
How many QSOs did the winners have back in the early years of SS?
John KK9A
To: Reflector <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] So Sunday Sucked?
From: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 21:19:14 -0600
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No. Next question? :-)
Remember that when Sweeps got started (1930) almost all hams were east of
the Mississippi. And there was no televised anything. That's probably the
answer - maybe some of the folks who were around HQ in the 50s could fine
tune it for us. I have inquired of She Who Knows Such Things and will
report my findings.
73, Ward N0AX
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