[CQ-Contest] Have NCCC and PVRC ruined SS?

[Steve London]

To me, it's not the points contributed, it's the number of active 
stations that matter. I'll define "active" as those stations who put in 
10 or more hours.

As the author of the upcoming Phone SS writeup, I can say that it was 
very disappointing to see the drop in activity in 2012. The decreased 
emphasis by some clubs was a significant component of this drop.

What can we do to increase activity ? Making drastic changes, such as 
allowing the same station to be worked on each band, are off-the-table.

73,
Steve, N2IC

On 01/31/2013 01:38 PM, Bill Haddon wrote:
> Let's look at some actual numbers to assess the extent to which NCCC's not
> highlighting Sweepstakes influenced the Sweepstakes, over-all:
>
> For 2011 (one of the years cited by the K3KU message):
>
> Total points in Sweepstakes  CW:  ~85,000,000
>          Points from PVRC:                   10,113,000
>          Points from NCCC:                     7,970,000
>
> Suppose NCCC had emphasized SS and that NCCC tied PVRC:
>      Increase in Sweepstakes scores under this scenario:     ~2.6% of total
> SS CW points.
>
> It does appear that NCCC contributed a bit less in 2012 (can't tell easily
> since the CW and Phone scores are not individually summed in the NCCC
> database), but I'd guess NCCC generated about 6,000,000 CW points (but many
> members' scores went to MLDXCC).  So there might be about a 5% impact on
> overall Sweepstakes activity from our failure to stress the Sweepstakes in
> 2012.  A relatively small effect.
>
> 73 Bill n6zfo
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