[CQ-Contest] More Sprints

[Mike Fatchett]

As a "Phone" guy who dabbles in CW I would like to see equal numbers of
both.

I can't agree with the statement about running out of stations to work.
There were many of us low power limited stations on that could have been
worked.  Tuning across 40 I heard many low numbers pop into the contest at
the end.  You just have to work harder at the end and listen for our weak
signals HI!

6m might be fun when the band is hot.  Otherwise it will be great for those
in major metro areas that can work each other on ground wave etc.  I would
be for a 10-15-20 contest, obviously it would have to be held in the
daytime.

40-80-160 would be fine too.

Mike
W0MU

-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Larry Schimelpfenig
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 3:29 AM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] More Sprints

Respecting the fact that the circumstances under which we all live differ, I
can understand the desire on the part of some to make changes to additional
Sprints if they were to occur. Having said that, I would submit that the cw
Sprint is the most popular and question why anything should be changed. For
what it's worth, in my opinion:

1. I don't get the idea of doing it on 6 10 and 15. I want to work a Sprint
with some rate, not a VHF contest. There's some consistency with propagation
on the currently used bands.

2. I like Pete's idea about limiting it to CW. Again, that seems to be the
most popular Sprint. At the end of the phone Sprint, many ran out of
stations to work. The RTTY Sprint still allows one to work the same stations
repeatedly under certain stipulations on the same band because of lack of
activity.

3. I like the Saturday evening format because I'm a working stiff that is up
and at em' at 4 on Monday morning. I realize that some work on Sundays and
such, but my guess is that Saturday works for the majority. Again, why mess
with success.

4. I like the idea of doing it on a quarterly basis.

I also volunteer to help in some way to make it happen and to continue
additional CW Sprints.

73 de Larry K7SV

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