[CQ-Contest] [YCCC] Why ARRL SSB Contest is Not My Favorite - my 2 cents

[Peter Chamalian]

Think back to when you first started in contesting.  ARRL DX was fun.  There
were plenty of stations you could work because you had a modest station.
You learned a lot and had fun doing it.  You may even remember the days when
ARRL DX was two weekends long and we had a 5-station per country quota!
Yeah, I remember that.  I also remember Friday night tuning across 40 CW and
hearing a G with a pileup of W's, a DL with a similar pileup and W4KFC with
a pileup of EU.  Those were the days!

But you grew.  You expanded your station with bigger antennas and higher
ones, too.  Your rig is better and you are a better operator too.  Now you
would work more DX farther away and slowly contests like CQWW became more
fun and interesting because you could compete.

Every contest has its place and while for some, ARRL DX is tame and rather
boring with the lack of rarer DX, it very much has a solid place in the
contest scheme.

Pete, W1RM

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Fitzgerald [mailto:jfitzgerald at alum.wpi.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 9:44 PM
To: hankkier at aol.com
Cc: yccc at yccc.org; cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] [YCCC] Why ARRL SSB Contest is Not My Favorite

On 3/5/2013 6:45 PM, hankkier at aol.com wrote:
> 1 - almost impossible to find a run frequency without stepping on
someone's toes, except on 10 meters
One memorable moment for me was a K2 station that graciously gave me his 
20M run frequency late Sunday afternoon.  Said he had worked 300 Q's on 
that frequency, but just got the call that the spare ribs were done!
>
> 5 - keep working the same stations on the same bands that we have worked
countless times before
>
>

Curiously that is one of the things I like about it.  Run rates were low 
enough Sunday afternoon that I was able to celebrate with various dx 
stations "Nice to see you again for N bands!"  It's especially fun when N=6

-Joe KM1P
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