On 12 Oct 2003 Richard Ferch wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 at 09:15:21 EDT,
> W0YR@aol.com sid:
> >
> > I have a question and I don't mean it to be insulting or to pick a fight:
> >
> > Where is the accomplishment in working the same stations repeatedly. What
> > skill or achievement does that represent?
> >
>
> I'd bet that the reason for allowing dupes has nothing to do with skill or
> achievement. I'd guess it's to keep the contest from being boring due to low
> participation. The first RTTY Sprint in October 2000 had only 20 logs
> submitted. By October 2001 that was up to 37, and March 2003 reportedly had
> 63 entrants, but even at that level of participation there aren't enough new
> stations to work to keep things moving fuill speed for 4 hours. Maybe when
> the participation gets up around 100 entrants it will be time to consider
> dropping this rule???
>
> 73,
> Rich VE3IAY
>
This contest would have died very quickly with participation such
that we'd run out of guys to work after 45 minutes or so. It would
be great if we had enough activity to eliminate the dupe rule.
Unfortunately, that isn't the case now. One could critique just about
any contest out there. For example, CQWW really doesn't have any
exchange - it's 599 plus zone. Is that any challenge to copy? The
logging program fills it in for you, etc. etc. If you don't like an
event, you don't have to operate (like my pet peeve about signing
portable).
The history of this contest is it started in 1995 as a 2 hour Sprint,
where the exchange included sending the name of the last person you
worked, not your own name. That put an interesting twist in it.
After about 5 years, I passed the reigns and it was reformatted into
the mold of the NCJ Sprint. For some more history see the NCJ writeup
here: http://www.ncjweb.com/rttysprint032000.pdf
73,
Barry W2UP
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Barry Kutner, W2UP Internet: w2up@mindspring.com
Newtown, PA Frankford Radio Club
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