[CQ-Contest] NA Sprint SSB Activity?

[Jim Brown]

The Manager of the SSB Sprint is a member of our club. I saw him at the 
NCCC meeting last week, when he talked for 45 minutes about CQP (of 
which he is also the Chair), but said not a word about SSB Sprint. His 
announcement on this reflector was a few hours before the start, far too 
late to promote activity or organize teams. Not a single word moved on 
the NCCC reflector about SSB Sprint until it was over.  Perhaps SSB 
Sprint needs someone with the fire in his ass to make things happen. 
N5KO and I have been talking about some sort of campaign to build 
activity in the CW Sprint.  He's got databases from participants from 
prior years that could be used for postcards or emails. I'm willing to 
kick in some bucks to make it happen.

This time around, I started about 45 minutes late and quite about 50 
minutes early when Qs were >5 minutes apart on 80M, my best band.

73, Jim K9YC

The On Mon,9/15/2014 2:16 PM, K4XS via CQ-Contest wrote:
> I agree that activity has hit an all time low.
>   
> I've been doing Sprint since the 80s and unless you got over 300 Qs  you
> lost and might not even make top 5.
>   
> In the Sprint last Saturday I had a malfunction of my 40 meter  antenna
> after only 5 or so Qs, leaving only 20 (which had pretty well petered  out) and
> 80 which was nil for activity.  Having only made a miserable 90+  Qs in
> almost two hours I decided to throw in the towel.   Boring!!!
>   
> In the last few Sprints it has been pretty much begging to get Qs  and then
> the top guys only made around 240-250 Qs, many of them begging  Qs.
>   
> This used to be a great contest and it's said the contest has  become a
> shell of its old self.
>   
> Bill K4XS/KH7XS
>   
> In a message dated 9/15/2014 8:42:47 P.M. Coordinated Universal Time,
> widelitz at gte.net writes:
>
> I was  one of the former regulars who didn't participate in this SSB Sprint.
> The  reason is that I have found the last two hours of the past few SSB
> Sprints  torture due to limited activity. It seems like a vicious circle.
> Less  activity begets less activity. SCCC didn't even send out an invite to
> be on  a team for this one.
>
>
>
> IMHO, the way to revitalize the SSB Sprint  is to get contest clubs to rally
> members to get on teams. Ten teams of ten  members is worth a potential
> additional 300 QSOs.
>
>
>
> How about  this: I'll sponsor a trophy for the highest scoring member of a
> contest  club's SECOND team, providing at least 5 contest clubs have two
> teams of 10  members and each member of each team makes at least 50 QSOs.
> Maybe a 3-D  printed statue of a sprinter carrying a microphone instead of
> a
> baton???:)
>
>
>
> 73, Ken, K6LA /  VY2TT
>
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