[CQ-Contest] cqcontest.net

[Steve London]

SO2R has a very small effect on the number of QSO's made in a contest. 
The number of 2nd radio QSO's I make in major contests is always less 
than 10% of the total number of QSO's. The primary advantage of SO2R is 
finding multipliers, not QSO's.

As a reminder, CQWW has a "Classic" overlay category that is SO1R-only. 
It's also 24 hours - you pick the 24 hours. Lots of fun.

73,
Steve, N2IC

On 04/05/2016 08:15 PM, Jim Fielder wrote:
> Me too!   I think so2r is a huge advantage over so1r.   I bet we would see more newbies stay with contesting if they felt they had a fighting chance to win with their so1r setup.   They put in a FT effort only to find out someone has 50%  more Qs than they have.  After all this is a competition so they should be in their own class.  Then when they are ready they too can invest in multiple towers with stacked beams and so2r.  If it is the goal to increase activity in contesting I feel we should not scare away those SO1R operators but rather recognize their efforts.
>
> 73, Jim
> KE0L
>
>> On Apr 5, 2016, at 5:20 PM, N2TK, Tony <tony.kaz at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> For my own selfish reasons I would like to see SO1R and SO2R Unassisted
>> separate.
>>
>> 73,
>> N2TK, Tony
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ed
>> Sawyer
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 1:19 PM
>> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] cqcontest.net
>>
>> Ditto the KD4D post.
>>
>>
>>
>> Why don't we let the unassisted operators decide whether the concern of
>> assisted ops invading our category is worth eliminating it over the concern?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> No reason to merge the 2 categories and then do an overlay.  Just leave it
>> the way it is and clarify reasonable questions like Braco's question.
>>
>>
>>
>> By the way, do to great efforts of the organizations and contest managers,
>> doesn't the ARRL and CQ contests represent something like 75%+ of all the
>> contest Qs made in a year?  Why exactly should this majority follow the
>> "rest of the world" minority?  Just sayin.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ed  N1UR
>>
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