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

[Georgens, Tom]

As long as we are shortening by 6 hours, why not another 6?

At 24 hours, those that want to shorten the contest are even happier.
For those that wish the contest was 48 hours, they can operate in two
halves with two different calls.  

This satisfies the two extreme positions, which seem to dominate the
rhetoric

73, Tom W2SC

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve London [mailto:n2icarrl at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 11:53 AM
Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Move WPX Back to 30 Hours?

Guy Molinari wrote:
> I've been doing the WPX seriously for about 4 years now.   I'm not
sure I had
> a dog in this fight until now.   With a 60 foot crankup tower with a
> tribander and a few wires, I've managed to get into the box scores a 
> few time (Pretty low on the list though).
> 
> What has gotten my attention is K5ZD's endorsement of the change.   I
don't
> see where he is going to personally gain from it given his QTH.
Maybe as a
> top op he thinks this will benefit radiosport as a whole?
> 
> Given that the contest was run a number of years spanning multiple 
> cycles in both 30 and 36 hour formats, what are the pro's and con's of
the change back?
> Hard data.   Not opinions.   As a newer contester I want to know.
This is
> what is great about this reflector.
> 

Hard data is going to be hard to come by. The change from 30 hours to 36
hours was made before the change that awarded 1 point for intra-country
QSO's. Thus, it's going to be hard to compare.

73,
Steve, N2IC
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