I agree with Ria's comments.
And any major changes to the categories or rules should have been openly
discussed and brought up prior to being dictated as adopted.
I have entered SOAHP now for 10yrs plus but at least if I WANTED to I could
have entered SO HP. Why the need to suddenly merge or eliminate a category?
Keep all existing categories as is.
It would be fine to create new categories to attract more beginners or
contesters who may have limited time.
For example, the TB-Wires and Rookie overlays are excellent in this regard. How
about another entry for 12-hours both SO and SOA mainly for casual
ops/beginners?
I don't see a down side to keeping existing categories and even expanding by
adding a couple more to get even more activity.
To me eliminating or merging a popular category that has many standing records
is a step backwards.
And how will those existing records be handled? Suddenly retired or what?
73 to all,
Darrell AB2E
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Sent: Friday, November 20, 2020 10:29 AM
To: Douglas Zwiebel <dougzzz@gmail.com>
Cc: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Should SO and SOA be combined? Randy's survey 2015
Even though the response in EU was opposite, it was marginal and the
sentiment in NA was overwhelming to keep unassisted.
This seems to have blown up into a gigantic mess and the combining of the
categories is something I don’t support, even though I do SOA sometimes.
They are different competitive strategies.
But at the very least the classic should be 36 hours.
73
Ria
N2RJ
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 9:59 AM Douglas Zwiebel <dougzzz@gmail.com> wrote:
> From K5ZD's survey 2015
> NOTE THAT: EU and NA show opposite responses for the Yes/No section
> Also: opinions may have changed in the last 5 years.
>
> de Doug KR2Q
>
> QTH Combine SO+SOA Count of Response % of Response
>
> Africa don't care 2 4.44%
> No 22 48.89%
> Yes 21 46.67%
> Africa Total 45 0.88%
>
> Asia don't care 76 10.73%
> No 360 50.85%
> Yes 272 38.42%
> Asia Total 708 13.84%
>
> Europe don't care 223 8.64%
> No 1,141 44.19%
> Yes 1,218 47.17%
> Europe Total 2,582 50.46%
>
> NA don't care 125 8.46%
> No 890 60.26%
> Yes 462 31.28%
> NA Total 1,477 28.86%
>
> Oceania don't care 16 14.04%
> No 58 50.88%
> Yes 40 35.09%
> Oceania Total 114 2.23%
>
> SA don't care 7 3.66%
> No 80 41.88%
> Yes 104 54.45%
> SA Total 191 3.73%
>
> Grand Total 5,117 100.00%
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