[CQ-Contest] Move WPX Back to 30 Hours?

[DL8MBS]

Richard L. King wrote:

>When we start cutting back on contest time to fit our aging sleep 
>cycle, it is admitting that the end of contesting is at hand.
>  
>
Hopefully the organizers of the lively IOTA-contest with a 12h out of 
24h-category don´t read this - it is so bad to know to be a victim of 
apocalyse...

Irony off: Any time reduction should be in recognition of 
everyday-time-budgets. If the majority of participants don´t make use of 
the available time - aren´t organizers than like a car manufacturer 
offering only ONE top model regardless of consumer´s budgets? (Pardon, 
Single-Band as time-restricted category? Not too good for the big-guns 
then loosing a lot of qsos when we cannon-fodder populate only one band...)

In WWDX SSB 2006 about 10 percent of all SOAB-participants operated 
longer than 30 hours (http://www.dl8mbs.de/40984/45289.html).
Sorry to say - but the fulltime-wish seems to be kind of a minority 
topic (of course a vociferous minority) with an undertone that the 
majority or participants aren´t "real contesters".

Flame suit on and best 73, Chris

(www.dl8mbs.de)