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

[Michael Adams]

I'm not an old-timer, but I was lead to understand that the reason behind
the SS exchange's format was that the contest is drawn from a
traffic-handling tradition.

If you're passing traffic to a station, why would you need to pass it to
that station more than once?

I don't know if that's the real explanation (beyond "that's the way it's
always been") for work-stations-only-once....but it feels plausible, and is
the assumption I've been making.

-- 
*Michael D. Adams* (N1EN)
Poquonock, Connecticut | mda at n1en.org


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Jeff Clarke <ku8e at bellsouth.net> wrote:

>
> Is there another all band contest (160 and 10 meter contests don’t count)
> that you can only work a station only once ? (not on each band)  I don’t
> think so. Like many said BORING. Most stations don’t even bother to operate
> the full 24 hours. I wasn’t even born when the SS rules were first written
> so I don’t know what the rational was behind allowing only one QSO. Maybe
> one of you old-timers might know ?
>
> My guess to why SS might be popular for some is it’s just been around for
> such a long time. It’s kind of the same reason that Field Day is so
> popular.  You work stations in both of these contests that you normally
> don’t work in all the other ones. It’s about time that the ARRL  updated
> the rules.
>
>
> Jeff KU8E
>