[CQ-Contest] A 24-hour category? was: Re: How many hours do SOAB entrants actually operate?

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

What would be the effect on activity of a 24-hour category, I wonder.  A 
survey a few years ago on CQ-Contest suggested that more people would 
put in more hours than would put in less, so the net effect would be 
favorable.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 3/28/2013 5:29 PM, Jimk8mr at aol.com wrote:
> I don't think there would be many.
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> Most of the 24 hour people are people like me who have a 24 hour station -
> good enough to have fun in the good hours, and to work the easy multipliers
> on  the low bands,  but not good enough to be competitive after about 30
> hours  when dipoles at 60 feet don't do much on 40 and 80 meters, not to
> mention  160.
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> A good op at a big station who decides to compete in a 24-30 hour time
> limited category will always beat my decent station, spending the same  amount
> to time on the air.
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> 73  -  Jim  K8MR
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> In a message dated 3/27/2013 2:45:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> wa5rtg at gmail.com writes:
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> It would  be interesting to know whether there is some maximum number of
> hours (for  single operators only) that would cause many of those who play
> around for  20-30 hours to go all in.
>
> How many don't give it a full effort  because they can't go 46 but would
> make the attempt to go 40, for  example?  I wouldn't recommend less than about
> 40 or 42 max but would  think it might be a positive to have some required
> off time if the end result  was more activity overall.  Looks like only 3%
> (less than 150 out of  5,000) operate even as many as 36 hours.
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> There are some who are  passionate about the 48 hours but it can't be many.
>
> Stan,  K5GO
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> On Mar 25, 2013, at 2:53 PM, David Gilbert  <xdavid at cis-broadband.com>
> wrote:
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>> Great info,  Doug.
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>> That's only the results from the people who submitted  logs, right? I'd
> bet that the curve is skewed even more toward fewer hours for  the people who
> did not submit a log, and I wonder how many of those would be  more
> inclined to submit a log if categories existed for fewer  hours.   I suspect quite
> a few.
>> 73,
>>   Dave   AB7E
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