[CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest Digest, Vol 179, Issue 14

[Joe]

There ya go! It's a Marathon right?
Start at 21:00Z if you run till 21:00Z the next day with NO breaks, ( a 
marathon )
you get the privilege to continue operating till the ultimate cut off of 
03:00Z

Joe WB9SBD
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On 11/8/2017 12:24 PM, Bill via CQ-Contest wrote:
> Last two hours a bonus round?   Gee, that's nice since 20 is closed out in KH6 and 40 isn't open yet.
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> Better idea is to make it a 24 hour contest and you get to work all 24....no time off.
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> Bill K4XS/KH7XS
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Gruff <egruff at cox.net>
> To: cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wed, Nov 8, 2017 11:23 am
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest Digest, Vol 179, Issue 14
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> Tor - I think we do need the time restrictions, because the idea is to
> "force" everyone to stick around until at least partway through Sunday
> afternoon to get a higher score.
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> I'm way down in the lower left corner of the US, with a decent, but not
> exceptional station, and I could easily have worked many stations on two
> bands within a few minutes on Saturday (80/40 or 40/20 or 20/15) by just
> moving them to the 2nd band. That happens a lot in other contests where you
> can work everyone once on each band, and IMO isn't a good idea here as it
> really changes the makeup of SS.
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> I also still like the idea of making the last few hours a bonus round. Maybe
> for new mults only, or some other permutation that really incentivizes folks
> to operate late in the contest.
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> Glad to see other folks proposing many of the same ideas here. Maybe ARRL
> will consider some of them.
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