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

[Stan Stockton]

Best post on subject I've seen.

   If all band contacts were allowed you need to be well-equipped on  
all five bands.  I have always thought it possible to make the top ten  
from here operating single band 40 at the low sunspot point with some  
good wire antennas with gain.

Stan, K5GO

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On Feb 7, 2013, at 10:01 AM, George Fremin III <geoiii at kkn.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 06:51:56PM -0500, Jeff Clarke wrote:
>
>
>> 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 ?
>
> I am not sure why it is only one contact regardless of band but over
> the years I have come to appriciate this greatly in this contest.
>
> It allows you to operate on the band that is best for you that
> weekend.  We all have bands that work better for us at a given period
> of time.  There are any number of reasons
>
> Your antennas might work better on one band then another, or your
> geographic location might be better than another or the propagation.
>
> But whatever the reason you can usually find the best band for the
> time of day and your location/antennas.  If SS were a multi band
> contact contest like NAQP it would make the bands more crowded and
> would force you to operate a lot on each band and not allow you to
> concentrate on your stong bands.
>
> I am always amazed by how different the band breakdowns can be in
> the SS along stations with similar scores.
>
>
> -- 
> George Fremin III - K5TR
> geoiii at kkn.net
> http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr
>
>
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