[CQ-Contest] SS Sundays

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

Nothing is stopping anyone from doing this now.  Who cares if you are 
not sending in a log.  The big clubs have been doing this legally for a 
long time.  They just bring over an new transceiver and away they go.

This idea does not really bring anyone new into the mix.  It is the same 
people with new calls.

How many calls can one use, 2, 3, 4, 5?  Does this number continue to 
grow as there are less and less participants?

Mike W0MU

On 2/10/2013 2:12 PM, Jimk8mr at aol.com wrote:
> Let's get back to the simple suggestion most recently made by K2AV (with my
>   enthusiastic second):
>   
> Simply give people the reasonable opportunity to use a second (or more)
> call later in the contest, with minimal limits to prevent manufactured contact
>   abuse (A problem more in theory than in practice. See the CQ contests
> where multiple calls are permitted). Forbidding the use of a previous call
> after  use of a new one begins would be sufficient.
>   
> No need to establish new categories to do so.  Some side bet type of
> action without involving the ARRL Contest Desk is fine, but not necessary. I've
> had a competition (pretty much with myself) over the years to see if the sum
> of  my four scores (from separate physical locations) will beat the score
> of the  overall high scorer. Some years I win, some years I don't.
>   
> SS, especially the CW SS, is presented as an endurance contest where one
> struggles to scrape out every last possible qso on Sunday. I consider this a
> bug, not a feature, of SS. But the contest is still sufficiently popular
> that  being a new station in the later hours makes it into a rate contest.
> That  combined with the challenge of working a clean sweep (or close to it) in
> a  relatively few hours makes Sunday SS with a fresh call a lot of fun.
>   
> All this will take is for the ARRL to drop General Rules 3.3 and 3.5.
>   
>   
> 73  -  Jim   K8MR
>   
>   
>   
>   
> In a message dated 2/10/2013 1:50:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> n4zr at contesting.com writes:
>
> No, but  there *might* be a correlation if limited-time competition
> categories were  offered, perhaps focused on Sunday operating periods.  A
> "6-hour  Sunday" class might add some activity in the dead zone,
> particularly as  the age of SS participants continues to rise.
>
> 73, Pete  N4ZR
>   
>   
>
>
> On  2/9/2013 8:59 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
>> We seemed to have gotten  well off the original topic which was a
>> substantial drop in  participation in the contest and what things we
>> could do to get more  people to participate.
>>
>> Sunday afternoon, lack of rate was  mentioned as reason that
>> discouraged some.
>>
>> I am not  sure if there is any correlation between changing the length
>> of the  contest  and increasing participation.
>>
>> Mike  W0MU
>>
>
>
>> On  2/9/2013 9:14 AM, Zack Widup wrote:
>>> If you don't want to operate  during the full length of the contest,
>>> what does it matter what  the actual length of the contest is? If you
>>> only want to operate  on Saturday, then do just that, etc.
>>>
>   
>
>
>>> If you are in it mostly for fun (like I usually am),  then you operate
>>> when you wish. If you want to be competitive,  you'd do whatever it
>>> takes to be competitive if that means  operating the maximum time
>>> allowed by the  rules.
>>>
>>> 73, Zack  W9SZ
>>>
>>>
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