[CQ-Contest] What is Multi to you?

[Jack Haverty]

Wow... I was a novice 50+ years ago as KN3FIV, and I do remember Novice
Roundups.  Lots of fun!  It was perhaps the only contest where I ever
thought I was actually competing with others just like me, with my 75
watts and dipole.

Today Novices and Rookies are in short supply, since their lifetime is
only a year or so.  But we still have lots of stations, many who haven't
seen how to have fun in contests with their Novice-style stations.  We
even have a name for them - Little Pistols.

How about a new kind of Little Pistol Roundup?  Anyone can participate.
There are only two categories: (1) Little Pistol: 100W or less and
single-element wire or vertical antennas below 50 feet (including
"stealth" HOA-style in attics)  and (2) Everyone Else.   Use whatever
technologies you like to deal with the weak signal world.

Everyone else only gets points for working Little Pistols.  Little
Pistols get points for working anyone.

The Big Guns might have fun and enjoy the challenge showing their skills
at digging out weak signals and finding stations too weak to be caught
by Skimmers.  Sitting on a frequency and running for hours might not be
the winning strategy.

The Little Pistols might have fun competing with each other and being
sought out by the Big Guns.  Some of them may even decide contesting can
be fun even with a less-than-stellar "contest station".

73,
/Jack de K3FIV

On 05/14/2017 02:55 PM, Joe wrote:
> 
> On 5/12/2017 8:27 AM, Gerry Hull wrote:
>> Great ideas, Stan.
>>
>> The Rookie overlay is a great motivator.   Young/New contest ops don't
>> need
>> "baby" contests where there's no real competition or participation.  They
>> want to be real competitors in real events.   Overlays give them
>> something
>> to shoot for as they grow in skill.
>> 73, Gerry W1VE
> I beg to differ,
> How many here remember the old Novice Roundup!?
> 
> Not the Crap Rookie Roundup, that exists now. But the Old Novice Roundup?
> 
> That was an awesome contest, and the way it was laid out everyone had
> the chance to get the full allotted operating time in too.  To win in
> that one you fought in your own state against at least a dozen others in
> your own state, that bothered to even send in a log. And to win in your
> state ya had to make 400+ contacts too.
> 
> The new newbie contest abomination, "Rookie Roundup" is soo ill
> concieved, that no one even wants to play in it!
> 
> Even in the SSB mode,  there are a dozen states that if you made just 1
> contact and sent in your log you had 1st place in your state! You are
> the ONLY entry in your state!
> 
> They should have brought the Novice Roundup back exactly the same as it
> was before but now add the new modes that they can do. And work everyone
> on every mode and band too. to encourage multi mode operating and bands
> too.
> 
> ALSO like before allow non Novices to play in the contest, and as before
> where they can ONLY work novices, BUT......  give them a class in the
> contest too where they are competing against all the other Non Novices
> too! So they also have a dog in this race too.
> 
> Now that would be fun!
> 
> Joe WB9SBD
> 
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