[CQ-Contest] Sweepstakes: Should I be penalized for getting mylicense in 2000?

[Kelly Taylor]

The extent to which you're being robbed depends to a great extent on how 
full your weekend was.

It seems to me that in SSCW , any rate less than about 72 an hour means you 
have lots of time to send your check.

Now, if you're WP3R and are almost always running hard, then the size of 
your check makes a difference.

Then again, it depends on how hard-and-fast a rule the check is. If K0HB can 
change his check every year (he said on another topic he chooses his check 
no earlier than 2050Z to foil super check partial), then perhaps the actual 
year you choose isn't a big deal.

Or you could just use cut numbers ;=)

(NO! I'm not being serious!)

73, kelly
ve4xt


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D K7GK" <k7gk at hotmail.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:51 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Sweepstakes: Should I be penalized for getting 
mylicense in 2000?


> Since operating in Sweepstakes for the first time a few years ago and
> falling in love with this contest, I wondered - am I at a real 
> disadvantage
> given that my check is 00 or ten dahs on CW? Finally I decided to do a
> simple estimate and it goes like this. Suppose my average sending speed is
> 32WPM (I typically start at 35 and end up at 29 by the end) and let's
> disregard the fills. Sending 00 takes 41 dots (from here on dot is the
> amount of time to send a dit, dah is 3 dots, space between letters is 3 
> dots
> and so on). Sending 78 (average length check) takes 31 dots and sending 55
> (shortest check) takes 21 dots. Using "PARIS" as a typical word for this
> estimate I get that there are 42 dots in a word and 3 extra dots for 
> space,
> a total of 45 dots. Therefore in a minute there are 32 words or 32*45 = 
> 1440
> dots, or one dot is 1/1440 minutes long. This means that in every exchange 
> I
> lose (41-31)*(1/1440) = 1/144 minutes compared to a check 78 and twice 
> that
> to check 55. Having made about 1200 contacts in the last two sweepstakes
> this means that I spent 1200/144=8.3 extra minutes on sending long check
> compared to an average operator and 16.6 extra minutes compared to a lucky
> one. This roughly translates to 7 or 14 QSOs less given the average rates. 
> I
> am well aware that life is not fair (I do contest from the Pacific
> Northwest), but am I being robbed?
>
> 73, Denis - K7GK
>
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