[CCF] SAC-proposals for 2007 and beyond

Tue Oct 3 03:55:25 EDT 2006

SAC SSB contra CQWW RTTY'et

Vad det gäller frågan, skall en eller två weekend bevaras för SAC,
glömmer man lätt bort det, att nuvarande SSB del kolliderar med allt
större och större CQWW RTTY i världsklass. Detta är ett faktum någon
kan 'ignorera'.  Om CW och SSB skulle behållas separata, frågan lyder
när har vi SSB veckoslutet då ?

Ta gärna en titt på statistiken, och var redo att godkänna framtidens 
utveckling :

CQ WW RTTY antalet in sända log
  >
  >2000  543
  >2001  730
  >2002  868
  >2003  1044
  >2004  1159
   2006  1500 +

SAC  eventuellt 300-400 max i total ?

73  Kari OH2BP (OH0BP)
SARTG Ombud Finland

The Life is For RTTY Contesting.

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Luoma-aho Pasi wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I vote for :
> 
> - 1 point for Sc/Sc qsos (qsos to own country counting too)
> - no Sc country multipliers
> - separate weekends for CW and SSB
> - 24h format - BUT if the old 27h format would become an option, I might
> reconsider
> - SAC Contest Committee
> - more marketing of SAC
> - Contest IS
> 
> 73 de Pasi OH6UM/OH2IW, 33+ years of SAC CW and SSB
> 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ccf-bounces at contesting.com 
>>[mailto:ccf-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Pertti Simovaara
>>Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:52 AM
>>To: CCF at contesting.com
>>Subject: [CCF] SAC-proposals for 2007 and beyond
>>
>>Lots of good and intersting proposals among all the stuff.
>>A few comments from my 47 years of SAC experience, missed 1959.
>>Separate CW and phone during two different weekends is 
>>sounding good to me.
>>Yes, during the Phone part the 40m band was growded with RTTY stations
>>especially this year(pse notice that iRTTY is not crowding the phone
>>segments of  the organizing country at all).
>>It might be wise to move SAC phone, but to surrender to CQWW 
>>orgazitation
>>who is using their overhelming power and who to my knowledge didn't
>>negotiate, makes me feel something like cowardliness. How 
>>about letting the
>>market forces to decide? How about an extra trophy for both 
>>JAs and Ws for
>>40m single-band on Phone. Aren't we soon getting more spectrum on 40 ?
>>24h period as a standard is OK,  but original 27h ofcourse was offering
>>three greylines.12 hour periods would put Scandinavian countries in an
>>uneven position due to wide East-West spread.
>>Mixed results only as total of CW and Phone results in case 
>>that it would
>>tempt more participants. I do not know how to prove it.
>>Idea of Scandinavians working Scandinavians is also 
>>intersting. In such a
>>case I suggest counting also 2 pts for Sc/Sc QSO and give 
>>points also for
>>own country as well, otherwise the advantage is too big  for those
>>Scandinavian countries who have only a few participants. An 
>>other aspect is
>>to look and understand Sc/Sc QSOs from the point of view of a  
>>(frustrated
>>?) DX who tries to catch a Scandinavian who just works strong other
>>Scandinavians. DX-multipliers are however the thrill of any 
>>contest, they
>>should not loose totally their interest in SAC.
>>Allowing spotting, not to talk about selfspotting, would drop 
>>out many who
>>have no internet capabilities in their contesting QTH eg. in 
>>my case OH2PM
>>and OH0PM/OH0R QTHs. Here in Kiikala I have it, but not in the 
>>shack. Also
>>spots as such emphasize more skils like clever fingers than operators
>>ability to sniff the propagation and radio/operator human interface. If
>>spotting brings more participants, why not. The next step is then to go
>>directly over internet and carry radios to museum. Some 
>>lowband DXers are
>>already pretty close toit, at least I am tempted  conclude 
>>that from spots
>>by some  lowband DXers.
>>
>>I see three issues: Sc/Sc QSOs, Phone weekend slot, Marketing SAC.
>>
>>73 de Pertti, OH1PS
>>
>>PS, In 2006 SAC I have tested a new set-up, in stead of SO2R, 
>>SO3R.  SO3R=
>>Single-op, three Rig = one Radio, Coffee maker and Microwave 
>>owen. Works
>>well, keeps operator fresh and busy and the best, it can be 
>>supported by an
>>old laptop which has only one serial port( tap water is 
>>desirable but not
>>necessary).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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