[CQ-Contest] Bad Sprint Ideas

[Jeff Stai WK6I]

wow - now I understand why some other folks I know have left this reflector.

I'm pretty sure a few of the CW guys will get something going in spite of 
you, and I'll happily go talk to the RTTY folks about another sprint - they 
have a wonderfully positive attitude.

There are a bunch of really obvious arguments to make on each of your 
points, but they've been argued ad nauseam already.

cheers & 73 - jeff wk6i


At 02:59 PM 2/11/2004, Bill Fisher, W4AN wrote:
>#1 (my favorite):  Running the contest on HF and VHF.
>
>If you want a VHF Sprint, then start one.  Call it the VHF Sprint.  Be sure
>to make it a sprINT format so you and the other 2 guys you can hear won't
>run out of things to do.
>
>#2: Sunday Sprint.
>
>For you guys with kids out of college and Sunday is the same as Thursday
>(I'm jealous), this may make sense.  For those of us with kids in diapers or
>need to be at school the next day, this idea just doesn't fly.
>
>Add to this the operators that drive to stations to operate.  The last CW
>Sprint I got home at 2:00am.  Sorry, I'm not getting home at 2:00am on a
>Sunday night and then getting up to work 5 hours later.
>
>#3: Quarterly Sprint
>
>Feb, May, Sept, Nov
>
>OK, you tell me where we operate the Sprint in November?  Better yet, you
>tell me who wants to operate another contest in November?  3 Sprints per
>year... maybe.
>
>#4:  Phone Sprint
>
>Dumb contest.  No, wait.  Dumbest contest.
>
>Maybe if it were moved to 15m/20m/40m, and earlier in the day.  Otherwise,
>too disruptive.  And, if a contester thinks a contest is too disruptive,
>what do you think the non-contesters think?
>
>I can give you recommendations for dumping this contest forever from at
>least 5 guys who have won it in the past and who won't operate it again.
>
>Back to net,
>
>Bill Fisher
>
>
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