[CQ-Contest] What is Multi to you?

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

Will we have more competition on MS or M2 if we change the rules to what 
most or many of us think they should be.

Instead of only superstations being in the running to win maybe more 
modest stations would have a chance to actually post decent scores.  
What we have right now is a very select group of stations dominating the 
those classes.

Are the NBA playoffs exciting right now with two team running away with 
it all and everyone expecting those two teams, Golden State and 
Cleveland to be in the finals or are the NHL playoffs more exciting with 
two game 7's coming with everything on the line and now Ottawa taking 
down the Rangers?

Would it be more exciting like WRTC where 2 through 4th or 5th was very 
very close in every class in every contest?

Explain to me how you get anyone interested in winning or even competing 
when you tell them a they have to pretty much live in a couple of 
geographical areas and you need a pile of money to build a super 
station.  Congrats to the superstations.  Amazing work. They are the 1 
percent, so why have the rules been changed or not changed for the 
benefit of the 1 percenters and the rest of us essentially left out.  Or 
look at it another way.   When I played hockey we had age brackets for a 
reason.  It attempted to level the playing field.  We do next to nothing 
to attempt to level the field.  Why?

SO2R  and interweaving qsos is great.  Congrats to those few that can do 
it well and have the resources to do it.  I feel like my modest station 
is a rowboat compared to speedboats.  It makes zero sense that we all 
compete in the essentially the same classes with rowboats, sailboats, 
powerboats and air craft carriers and then have the classes or rules 
that benefit those pushing the envelope.




On 5/9/2017 4:14 PM, Yuri wrote:
> Gerry,
> Isn't  SO2R Dual CQ operation (a-la CT1BOH, N6MJ etc.) is the same type of <quote> "elimination of a lot of people from ever being in contention for top spots in the category" <unquote>?
> All that you said below is true for ANY category.
>
> I think it's all about the rules.
> If they aren't broken and they allow to do such, then... one either needs to change the rules or has to accept the fact.  Maybe it's time to research some other ways to attract (more) new competitors, like doing more WRTC-style (live) competitions during June FDays, working more closely with schools, colleges and other youth organizations and so on...
>
> Best regards,
> Yuri VE3DZ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Gerry Hull
> Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 10:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What is Multi to you?
>
> Interesting Thread.
>
> I've been contesting over 40 years.  In all that time, 99% of my efforts have been at M/S or M/2 stations.
> For more than 30 of those years, a multi-single was a station with one main radio and one multiplier radio.
>
> With a single tower and a good antenna complement, winning M/S in North America has been possible with two radios.  We did it at more than one station.
>
> If you read my comments on CQ Contest, you know that I don't live in the past -- I love technology, and advancing the state of the art is where I'm at.
>
> However, in this case, I think the case of N radios in a M/S is a bastardization of M/S.  Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
> I applaud the Huge M/S multi-radio efforts by K1LZ and others -- very cool technology -- but all that does is eliminate a lot of people from ever being in contention for top spots in the category.  If you look at the size of the scores in these 5-to-10 radio Multi-singles, they are completely out of line with "traditional" multi-singles.
>
> In CQWW, there used to be a category for "experimental" operations ...  I'm sure those guys building those huge M/S operations would not accept being put in to such a category...  However, how do we encourage new stations, and long-time "traditional" M/S stations to compete in the category?
>   Since there are not a HUGE number of these Many-TX-interlocked M/S, and they love to one-up each other -- why not let them compete in a category of their own?
>
> There's lots of technology/technique happening in the M/S space without going to such extremes.
>
> 73,
>
> Gerry W1VE
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