[CQ-Contest] Improving contesting (was Extreme)

[Julius Fazekas]

A little humor always helps.

Better coverage of the categories where the bulk of the participation occurs. Maybe better coverage of the club competition as a lot of folks get on just to help their group.

Unusual operations and DXpeditions always appeal to a broader audience.

Definitely keep it friendly for non contesters. Maybe a highlight of folks making real efforts to not QRM nets or make real QSOs, might take the edge off for some. Although judging by the last 30 years of comments that is not very likely...

Some of the CQ write ups are a bit more interesting than some of the ARRL write ups, this may be due to size of the articles and lead time for the authors.

73,
Julius

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html

Tennessee QSO Party: Sunday, 6 Sept 2009
http://www.tnqp.org/

Elecraft K2/100 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366


--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Randy Thompson K5ZD <k5zd at charter.net> wrote:

> From: Randy Thompson K5ZD <k5zd at charter.net>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Improving contesting (was Extreme)
> To: CQ-Contest at contesting.com
> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 6:38 AM
> Felipe NP4Z wrote:
> 
> > 4. Have decent write ups.
> 
> 
> What makes a writeup good?  Or, what makes a writeup
> bad?
> 
> Who reads the writeups?  Should they be written for
> the participants of the
> contest?  Or for the general ham radio audience as a
> way of bringing them
> into the game?
> 
> 
> Randy, K5ZD
> 
> 
> 
> 
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