[CQ-Contest] SS observations (pretty long, too)

[KI9A at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/5/01 9:13:55 PM Central Standard Time, 
al_lorona at agilent.com writes:


If I am in a contest that
causes me to have periods when I am not making contacts at this high rate, I
will consider not participating." Is that really what you mean?


Nope. Not at all.

Hours of 18, 27, 22 does suck. Will I not participate? Hell no. It is still 
fun! But, why not simply allow more than band/Q?

I'm not thinking along the lines of shortening it. Or low power only. Just 
simply allowing me to work a guy on another band. Is this really too radical?

Another responce is "tradition".  Hmm..."traditionally", didn't we all log 
with pencil & paper & use bugs?  By the way, I AM of the "MTV" generation, 
but this was my 21st SS, so I also have tradition.  I tend to be a pro-active 
person. Why revive something after it has died? Lets keep it from dying. We 
can't deny that our hobby is losing out to other hobbies, right? But, it 
seems that contesting is holding it's own. Do we have as many "young" guys in 
contesting? No. But, we don't really have many "young" guys in the hobby.  

I see a very large increase in contesting here in the midwest, all in due to 
the efforts of the SMC. Hearing from new members (new contesters) about how 
exciting contesting is, really ignites a flame inside. It should ignite all 
of us. Part of drive is the desire to make things better. Folks, that's all 
I'm suggesting. Don't worry, I don't want to "break" your contest.....just 
tune it up for the new century!

73/Chuck KI9A

BTW, I hope this won't cost me any Q's in 2 weeks! ;-)


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