[CQ-Contest] 24 Hour contest Survey

[Christian Schneider]

N1UR wrote: Currently, I would say that based on the lackluster enthusiasm
for people responding to the 24 hour survey, I think that there will be no
meaningful change to the contesting experience based on adding this
category.  A few dozen people responding out of 8000 logs submitted is going
to be "in the noise" as far as the on the air experience goes. Sounds like a
few very well intended and motivated people on the reflector without much of
a mass following to me.
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Maybe sinmply because the voting happens year after year by paddle&mike with
90 percent operating not longer than 24h?
If customers behaved like that there would be no need for any survey. 

But everything is said for years now, nearly every figure published and the
question is only whether organizers will represent the majority's operating
habit with a seperate category or lump them categorywise together with the
about 3 percent really operating fulltime, supposing the majority lacks
competetive spirit and takes the contest as a mere activity weekend.

And be careful with arguing in the lines of "without much of a mass
following" - how gives this justification for a 48h-category - filled in
their basic meaning only by a small one digit percentage?

But all is said. 
73, Chris DL8MBS