[CQ-Contest] Multiple Contest Callsigns

[Radio K0HB]

What's not to like about this idea?

I love it.

Send the idea to every member of the ARRL CAC.

73, Hans, K0HB

On Friday, February 1, 2013, wrote:

> Thanks to K2AV for writing this for me.
>
> For years I've been doing SOMS - Single Op, Multi Station - in the CW SS.
> That contest becomes really fun when the rate goes *UP* as the contest goes
> on.
>
> Last year, needing another serious single operator entry for WRTC ranking,
> I did a traditional one station effort from AC8E. I won the Great Lakes
> Division, and was bored out of my mind after the first 14 hours or so.
>
> I don't understand the ARRL's phobia about the use of more than one  call
> per transmitter or QTH (family stations exempted). It's not going to
>  prevent
> manufactured contacts - somebody doing that simply would not send in a  log
> for that call(s).
>
> CQ doesn't share the phobia, and I like it. In the recent CQ 160 contest I
> started over the second night as W3USA, and was running 120 hours with low
> power. It was a lot more fun than tuning around trying to keep the rate
> above  40. I hope nobody I worked twice minded. (I also got back on for the
> last  hour Sunday afternoon as K8MR, for another 40 or so QSOs. But I
> would not
> object  to the concept of forbidding this).
>
> I would suggest a couple of variations on what K2AV suggested. I don't see
> a need to limit an operator to 24 hours among the various calls. If he is
> still  going strong at hour 24 at 0200z Monday, let him go. I don't see the
> need  to limit it to two calls. And I don't see need for an off time when
> switching calls,  But these are minor points.
>
> I sense that there are lots of people who by the end of SS (or other
> contests) who know they aren't going to win and don't care. But they would
> have
> a lot of fun as "fresh meat". And the rest of us contest carnivores would
> be
>  delighted to take what they offer.
>
>
> 73  -  Jim
>
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 2/1/2013 7:26:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> olinger at bellsouth.net <javascript:;> writes:
>
> Reads  like, you can do anything, except the rules are off the table, so
> basically  you are talking about people selling the Sweepstakes.  Clubs
> will
> for  club competition.  But individuals to other individuals?  Folks do
> this
> word of mouth thing and that's how good things grow.
>
> But you  take the rules entirely off the table and you hope the big clubs
> are in  there.  After that, you wanna pay money to advertise the SS on  TV?
>
> The biggest individually self-limiting aspect the contest has  is
> saturation.  Work out the stations and slow way down, but this  encourages
> "fresh meat" stations on Sunday that get a lot of  attention.  At PVRC we
> tell the guys that can only put in 5-6-7 hours  to do it on Sunday, and
> run,
> not S&P, and forget about chasing mults on  spots.  If by increased
> participation you mean total QSO count, that  strategy works.
>
> If someone could suggest a rule change, and this is  partially allowed now,
> but is a mechanical nightmare, and that is starting  over with a new call
> sign.  If you change stations and use "unused"  transmitters you can do it
> now.  NCCC used it extensively at one  time.
>
> You could ALLOW a second call sign to be used at the same station  on the
> same equipment by the same operator.  Once second call sign in  use, log of
> first call sign used by that op is frozen and can't be used  again in the
> contest.  Either call sign could only be used once in the  contest and
> cannot have overlapping start and finish times.  Stop of  one and start of
> the other must be separated by a legal off time (30  minutes currently)
> Think everything you need to enforce that is in the  log.  With that rule
> some of us in club competition would start Sunday  morning with second call
> sign.  The timing of the switch to maximize a  club score would be a real
> science.  A pair of logs from the same  operator would be listed and scored
> separately, eligible for awards only  separately.  Separate log submission
> to the robot.   The two  logs combined subject to the 24 hour limit.  It
> would sure change  Sunday afternoon.  Let the clubs worry about how they
> award their  internal awards.
>
> Those who want to max out for top scores and awards  just keep doing what
> they are doing.  Just more call signs to work  overall.  "Double-signing"
> would be optional and up to the  individual.  Doesn't mess with records,
> other rules, just allows an  option that might make Sundays fun.
>
> If you want to leave it to the  operator whether they want to sleep or not,
> then just say that the log of  one call in a pair must have all its "on"
> times entirely within the legal  "off" times of the other, and all current
> rules for time and max still  apply to each log separately.  ARRL log
> scoring program handle that  easily.  Operators would restart logging
> program on the other  call.  Logging program coders would be asked to not
> support instant  call flipping.
>
> The improvement in total score from an individual op's  two logs would come
> not so much from lack of sleep as it would from making  Sunday meaningful
> when you've operated hard on Saturday.
>
> That's a  rule change that wouldn't mess with scoring, records, awards,
> etc,
> and  would increase the total QSO count, especially on Sunday.  Clubs
>  would
> need to strategize.  But they're deep into that  already.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> 73,  Guy.
>
>
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