[CQ-Contest] How many hours do SOAB entrants actually operate?

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

So you say that a 24-hour category would push people into daylight 
operating, diminishing night-time activity, and Bill (K4XS) complains 
that it would make the slow times on Sunday even worse. Who's right?

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 4/1/2013 10:21 AM, Richard F DiDonna NN3W wrote:
> On 3/31/2013 10:55 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
>>
>> I'm not saying that a full 48 hour effort isn't fun and challenging 
>> for some, but catering ONLY to the less than 1% who fall into that 
>> category seems misdirected to me.  What I don't understand is why the 
>> categories shouldn't be able accommodate both.  I used to do a lot of 
>> semi-competitive cycling and many events had different categories for 
>> different distances ... 25 miles, 50 miles, and 100 miles all at the 
>> same time.  It seems to me we could rather easily do the same here.
>>
>> 73,
>> Dave   AB7E
>>
> Because in cycling, the efforts of one cyclist don't necessarily 
> impinge on the efforts on others.  By encouraging stations to operate 
> only 24 hours, you will have an effect on how the bands load and the 
> availability of stations during certain periods.  I can guarantee you 
> that if stations got to chose to chose a 24 hour operating period, 
> most would chose to operate during daylight hours and would avoid 
> marginal bands as you can't mess up in a 24 hour contest.  Look at the 
> scores from this past weekend's CQWPX contest - SOAB stations 
> completely minimized their efforts on 80 and 160 because the ratio of 
> time versus QSOs does not justify being up that late.
>
> I'll also stand in total agreement with other posters who note that 
> creating a new "24 hour" category won't guarantee any victories for 
> non-hard core stations.  It will instead mean that certain hard core 
> stations who don't want to do 48 hours, will instead do 24 hours and 
> will knock off the competition.
>
> 73 Rich NN3W
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