Sunday Sprints?

[Jim Stahl]

For the record, my phone sprint score was 77/34.
 
I started the contest at 0255, about 1 minute after our company
for the evening left.
 
I don't know that I'd want to get serious about this contest
until we can get some propagation on 40 meters, but even then I
probably wouldn't want to go through the grief with my wife over
spending another Saturday evening doing "radio crap".
 
Which led me to the following thought:
 
     Has anyone ever considered running the Sprints on Sunday
     evening, local time?
 
I'm sure I'm not the only contester who has a wife (or babe) who
doesn't relish spending Saturday night at home while her
husband contests away.  Sunday night, on the other hand,
generally is a do nothing evening that is typically spent
watching TV.  
 
So at the cost of keeping us maybe an hour later than normal (in
the Eastern time zone), we could eliminate several Saturday
nights of XYL ill will.  In February (standard time) only the
post contest adrenalin would keep us from a normal night's sleep. 
Get to the central time zone and even this hardly applies.
 
Two more advantages: interference with/from other competing
contests (e.g. WAE Phone, FOC marathon) would be eliminated.  I
also think we would find a good number of contesters who don't
normally  sprint who would show up for something to do on an
otherwise boring Sunday evening.
 
Comments?
 
Jim Stahl  K8MR    k8mr at barf80.nshore.org


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>From Danny Eskenazi <0005720561 at mcimail.com>  Wed Sep 21 18:04:00 1994
From: Danny Eskenazi <0005720561 at mcimail.com> (Danny Eskenazi)
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 94 12:04 EST
Subject: ONE RADIO - GOOD, TWO RADIO - BAD
Message-ID: <21940921170412/0005720561PK4EM at MCIMAIL.COM>

How did we get into this one?    It started with a question "should we 
annotate the 2 radio operations in the Sprint and SS?"
It has nothing to do with GOOD and BAD,2 radios is the way of the future,
and its here to stay, and it has nothing to do with good and bad.
RESULTS of survey show basically a majority in favor of some annotation
of 2 radios in results of SS and Sprint".
SUMMARY: guys that run 2 want no annotation ; those with one DO.  duh...
guess we could have guessed the outcome of that one.  Lots of folks strayed
from the question and took it as a challange to 2radio operation..NO WAY!
Simply a question from someone who would take great delight in beating
2 radio guys and having it show in the results. It simply clarifies the
challange of the sport.
Im all for 2 radio, and if I had more room for antennas, I'd be doing it
myself, I know it would keep the contest more lively.
I think the K6LL one radio type guy can take even greater delight in 
showing up in the box ABOVE lots of annotated scores, with this system, and
2 radio folks will KNOW who they are more directly competeing with.
Thanks for the suggestions of other annotation, height, TVI, kids etc..
good humor as usual prevailed. If Im getting too serious I'll back off ,
but I am smiling as I write this.    73 Danny K7SS at mcimail.com