[CQ-Contest] I loved the WPX - missing 10 min MS rule

Thu Apr 4 02:48:39 EDT 2013

Well .....this year was not so nice for us!
Extremely bad WX with rain rain rain and in rain brakes we had snow!
Condx were not good and there was much QRN!
We were QRM-ed for long time  by someone using KJ3X callsign! Thanks to Bill
K4XS(real KJ3X)  for info!
We found water in our 15m koax and connector and our switching system was
damaged .....so not much fun!

But after being 3 years in row SOABHP in SSB part, we enter this year MS
..... I have to say we were missing old 10 min MS rule for WPX!
Have 10 band changes pro hour is not fun at all, there is nothing to do
expect CQ and clicking  on the  spots with 2nd radio 
on same band if you have one! Yes of course you can stop CQ on run and made
few QSOs on other band
but need to be interlocked  etc.....and all for 5 QSO pro hour if you not
made band change with run radio!!!
However I remember on K5ZD words....with 10 band changes they wanted to made
real Single TX category......
But what we have today?
Station doing CQ and S&P with 1 or 2 more station on same band, interlocked
station on other bands etc etc
Not complaining about it, we using it as well...if you want to stay
competitive you need it!
But this is far away from Single TX category.....how ever I found WPX MS
this year very boring for people not sitting on RUN!
MS in CQ WW DX with 10min  is much more interesting!!!
Maybe we are not alone and maybe new contest director can think about
bringing back good old 10 min rule!

73s
Braco
E77DX

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] Im Auftrag von
Randy Thompson K5ZD
Gesendet: Dienstag, 02. April 2013 13:11
An: 'Charles Harpole'; 'CQ-Contest Reflector'
Betreff: Re: [CQ-Contest] I loved the WPX

I really enjoyed WPX SSB this year as well.  Just seemed more fun than
usual.  Conditions were good, although not great.  But, good enough that
stations were able to spread out across all bands. Activity was good, but
without so much crowding that it was impossible to find a frequency.  It was
just enjoyable.  

And I could tell everyone else was having fun too.  There is something about
prefixes for multipliers that avoids the big cluster pileups or rare DX
pileups. And the ability to work everyone for points helps fill the log and
accelerate the score.

My brain is addicted to contesting.  Maybe it will help me be smarter some
day.  :)

Randy, K5ZD

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf 
> Of Charles Harpole
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 1:47 PM
> To: CQ-Contest Reflector
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] I loved the WPX
> 
> This is long, sorry.  At 69 with beginning shakey fingers and less 
> stanima, I nevertheless entered the WPX ssb with determination.  I 
> came out breaking
> 2 million points and with a very satisfying experience.  WPX trained 
> my brain... again!
> 
> The HS0 prefix makes me desirable, of course, and I am above just-loud 
> with even marginal openings, but something geophysical makes me heard 
> much better than I can hear.  Other local hams confirm this gator 
> situation.
> These factors give me a pile up with nearly every call.  So, my brain 
> gets the duty of sorting the voices.
> 
> By the end of the contest, I had re-learned to discriminate the voices 
> on the same frequency and was surprised that I actually did not hear 
> the QRN and QRM that was there and so vexing at the start of the 
> contest.  By the end of the test, I could copy much better, my short 
> term memory had improved and allowed me to hold calls and numbers 
> whole even prior to typing them into the log, and I had succeeded in 
> holding my impatience with frustrating operators.  Also, I had 
> modulated my sleep and wake pattern to end feeling refreshed and sorry 
> WPX was over so soon.  (I am
> retired.)
> 
> My point is that this contesting had significantly sharpened my 
> concentration skills and mental focus, had slapped my memory around to 
> better function, had made me manipulate my gear well and multi-task it 
> while planning which band and which direction to point as condx 
> changed, and had just sharpened me up overall!
> I am thinking at how much today's children and youth need this 
> sharpening, too.  Research on mental processing and learning indicates 
> that what one does in a contest is very good for mental development 
> and problem solving in an organized way, teaches not to give up on a 
> self- determined goal, and gives satisfaction at a task well done... 
> and hope that the learning will stick with one.
> 
> Obviously, I really loved this WPX.  73,
> --
> Charly, HS0ZCW
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