[CQ-Contest] Here we go again

[Bill Coleman]

On Nov 23, 2004, at 7:19 AM, Pete Smith wrote:

> While we're at it, let's get serious about revising this contest to 
> stimulate more activity.  Make mults one per band rather than overall. 
>  Wouldn't the first 5-band or 6-band sweep be something?  Allow one 
> QSO per station per band, and eliminate the Sunday doldrums.

Every year this is suggested, and every year it is a bad idea.

We already have a contest that allows one QSO per station per band, 
along with mults per band. It is called the North American QSO Party. 
SS does not need to be a longer NAQP.

SS is challenging the way it is. There's no need to "fix" it, since it 
isn't broken.

> In the past, suggestions of this sort were met with the complaint, 
> "That'd be just another NAQP."

Yes, because it would be.

> My response is "What's wrong with that," particularly if it attracts 
> SS-plus levels of participation instead of the few hundred regulars 
> who get involved in NAQPs.

I love the NAQPs! But I also like SS the way it is. Viva la difference!

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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