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

[N6hc]

Kelly,
I thought everyone watched the football or basketball games on Sunday with one eye and ear and operated Sweepstakes with the other eye and ear?  SO1R1TV class? The ultimate multitasking.
Tongue coming out of the other cheek now.
Arnie N6HC



-----Original Message-----
From: ve4xt <ve4xt at mymts.net>
To: Guy Olinger K2AV <olinger at bellsouth.net>
Cc: Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr at contesting.com>; CQ Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tue, Feb 5, 2013 1:21 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Sunday afternoon boredom is the wet blanket on SS (was Rules off the table ?)


Maybe a new class: C
as in SO2C, single op, two calls. 
Instead of using the second radio as a tool of the main station, it could run SS 
s a station unto itself...
Tongue coming out of cheek now. 
73, Kelly
e4xy
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 5, 2013, at 12:47, "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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