[CQ-Contest] Competitor friendly contesting

[Russell Hill]

Greetings, all:

I believe an issue with respect to limited hours entries, as well as some 
other "dumbed down" categories, is that the ops/stations with the biggest 
scores are the most influential in terms of opinions about what is best for 
contesting. Usually these are the ones who are most able to put in 48 hours, 
or are the best at SO2R, or have the biggest antenna farms, and, yes, 
generally have the most overall skill.  So they often see no need to "dumb 
down" the competition.

We little pistols stand in awe, rightly, and simply appreciate it when we 
are invited to participate in a big M/M effort.  But is hard to generate 
much enthusiasm for simply being "cannon fodder" for the "Unlimited" 
stations, when there is no chance to earn a spot on a Top 5 List, even if it 
is in a "dumbed down" category.

73,
Rusty, na5tr



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DL8MBS" <prickler.schneider at t-online.de>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:23 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Competitor friendly contesting


Hi,
with the goal to get as many participants and as happy as possible why
not compare to running events: surely they have the marathon as most
important category. But nearly all organizers add half-marathon, 10k and
perhaps a kid´s distance. The most important title will ever be the
marathon. But you also get more people involved on a more competetive
level with the other distances. Getting their feet wet and sooner or
later doing some big effort, too. And besides caring for us ALL getting
older who speaks about the big ham-population with kids and
family-obligations on weekends? Why say organizers ">40 hours or no
competetive all band entry" (forcing them into single band, guest at
Multi-OP, sprint-only-contests or to their own goals as interesting as
they may be will reduce the overall numer of QSOs in the contest). If
it´s all about competition why not add more competition also to those
squeezing in some hours here and there?
A simple start without categories and plaques etc could be adding the
hours of operation to the score list as in 3830. I never understood the
logic of  neglecting the op-time therein. I can´t feel as being better
than DF1xxx with my 300 small-signal-Qs in 20 hours compared to his 299
Qs in three hours... The possibiliy to add or negotiate more hours of
operation has nothing to do with radio-skills.
But all IMHO and the competition between the different contests may show
preferences over the years.
Best 73, Chris


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