[CQ-Contest] Have NCCC and PVRC ruined SS?

[Bill Haddon]

Let's look at some actual numbers to assess the extent to which NCCC's not
highlighting Sweepstakes influenced the Sweepstakes, over-all:

For 2011 (one of the years cited by the K3KU message):

Total points in Sweepstakes  CW:  ~85,000,000
        Points from PVRC:                   10,113,000
        Points from NCCC:                     7,970,000

Suppose NCCC had emphasized SS and that NCCC tied PVRC:
    Increase in Sweepstakes scores under this scenario:     ~2.6% of total
SS CW points.

It does appear that NCCC contributed a bit less in 2012 (can't tell easily
since the CW and Phone scores are not individually summed in the NCCC
database), but I'd guess NCCC generated about 6,000,000 CW points (but many
members' scores went to MLDXCC).  So there might be about a 5% impact on
overall Sweepstakes activity from our failure to stress the Sweepstakes in
2012.  A relatively small effect.

73 Bill n6zfo