[CQ-Contest] Categories, Participation and Competition

[Edward]

Chris, Its plenty of interest.  That wasn't my point.

The point is for all of the people on this reflector who are interested
in these categories to join in and COMPETITIVELY contest in the 12 and
24 hour contest slots that ARE available and to let the rest of us know
they are.  This is the best way to actually show the world what we are
talking about.

By the way, the number of entries is not a meaningful number.  If it
were, the argument is to NOT change a contest like CQ WW.  The
meaningful number is how many of the entrants went the full amount of
hours.  Or in a 48 hour case maybe 40+ hours.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris (DL8MBS) [mailto:prickler.schneider at t-online.de] 
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 12:30 PM
To: sawyered at earthlink.net
Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Categories, Participation and Competition


Edward wrote:

>I for one, could be persuaded to support these 12 or 24 hour categories

>if the walk backed up the talk in the current contests that offer it. 
>But I just don't see it.  Show us all, that there is interest...or drop

>it for once and for all please.
>
How much is enough interest? In IOTA 2008 the 12h-categories had 783 
single-op-logs sent (World-Stations) and the 24h-categories had 496. The

24-h-DL-DX-RTTY-Contests 2003-2008 had 37 to 48 percent of all logs in 
even shorter (and so in your view even more unattractive) 
six-hour-categories. Every sponsor can decide what may be enough 
interest to justify a seperate category - as every car-manufacturer can 
decide how big the demand for cheaper cars must be before he leaves his 
high standards and sells something other than only the top-model. As 
there is different purchasing power in money there is different 
"purchasing power" in op-hours. But that says - IMHO - nothing about 
competetiveness or skill (i.e. 1026 QSOs of a IOTA-12h-participant 
doesn´t sound like bad operating). Never have I heard that only drivers 
of expensive cars are better drivers than those of medium-sized cars. 
But YMMV.
73, Chris

(www.dl8mbs.de)