[CQ-Contest] Sunday afternoon boredom is the wet blanket on SS (was Rules off the table ?)

[Steve Sacco]

Perhaps the problem is that Sweeps is too long?

73,
Steve
NN4X Guy Olinger K2AV <olinger at bellsouth.net> wrote:I'm with Pete.

Someone commented that allowing stations to switch to a second call
sign would be "gaming the system".

First of all, for a serious high-score-seeking single op, all the
marbles in one log will always have a higher score than EITHER of two
logs splitting an operator's logs unless the op operates the max 24
hours on one log and six on the other. But the max score attempt on
the 24 hour log STILL has to CQ and SO2R S&P all Sunday to keep the
main score on the most "productive" hours. He'd have to keep up with
the other SS zealots who are gritting their teeth, grinding out SO2R,
and listening to an audio book or watching recorded comedy channel on
TV at the same time to avoid death by terminal boredom.

Practically speaking, looking for FUN, one has to give up on winning
anything to operate split into two logs.  Nobody is proposing ADDING
the two logs for an operator's single listed score.  At least, I'm
not.  Scores would be listed by the used call signs, and the split
logs are listed SEPARATELY in the listings.  The only place they would
add up is in club scores.

IF everyone in PVRC did split logs, the change in the contest would be
250-300 new calls on Sunday afternoon.  That would be about four hours
of new stations working 60 plus an hour.  If NCCC did it too, it's now
8 hours of new calls at 60+/hr.

If anyone who wanted to just maximize ***FUN*** (perish the thought)
did that, Sunday might actually be busy.

Please note that how you get a high score, rules, the exchange, yada,
yada, do NOT change anywhere, and what you have to do to get the high
score in any category is STILL THE SAME.

The split logs would only be added together in club scores.  And
please note, that with some planning and travel during the contest,
that is possible and LEGAL now, brought to us in bulk by the clever
fellows at NCCC. We're just asking to mainstream that.

And getting on and only working one's club members has ALWAYS been
legal. That's a complete straw man argument. Tell me you've never
heard this in a pre-SS club meeting:  "AT LEAST get on long enough to
work as many club members as you can find."

What one needs to remember here, for any serious SS operator, is that
Sunday afternoon/evening boredom is the 1000 pound gorilla in all
things SS, with nothing in second place, or third place, or fourth
place, or...  You've heard this in contest clubs: "If you're just
going to do five hours, PLEASE get on Sunday afternoon.  Please,
please."

Saturation kills SS as soon as the early Sunday morning 75 meter crowd
has been worked out and you figure out that most of the high-band east
coast-west coast possibilities were either worked at the start of the
contest, or on 40 meters at night.  After that it's digging in the
corners and crevices for a station hiding here and there, and jumping
in on the fresh meat newby pileups, and with rates way, way down from
Saturday afternoon's bee hive.

Do we really want to preserve Sunday afternoon boredom as one of the
treasured aspects of SS?  You like the gorilla and want to keep it?
Each to his own I guess, but I think that the gorilla has bad breath
and B.O.

73, Guy.

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr at contesting.com> wrote:
> Hi Joe - try operating SO1R (no packet) on SS Sunday if you were on the
> previous evening - it defines boring, because there is almost nobody to
> work. The difference between #1 and #10 is at most 50 QSOs.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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