[CQ-Contest] Shortening the Contest(s)

[Warren Rothberg]

I, too, will be turning 58 in September. It's been a long time
since I've gone the "duration". However, I've been waiting for
someone to echo my feelings on this subject. So...

"What SHE said."

Warren, W4WR

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ellen White, W1YL
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 9:07 PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Shortening the Contest(s)
> 
> I've been following the thread of this for some time -- in fact since my
> long-ago days of contest administration at ARRL Hq.!  It is far from a new
> topic.
> 
> My dear departed family members (W1CW and K4OJ) would be prone to say you
> really want to make it shorter to make it easier to compete (and win). But
> then Bob, W1CW, used to say winning wasn't everything - but it beat coming
> in second!
> 
> Is it possible you're all missing the real point.  There will always be
> someone coming along more physically able to handle the operating period
> (after all, the ARRL DX Competiton was two full weeks long!).  You're a
> real
> winner if you compete against your own previous results and top them.
> 
> This will hold true whatever the operating period is.
> 
> 73.
> 
> 
> W1YL/4 "ln"
> 
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