[CQ-Contest] So Sunday Sucked?

[Richard F. DiDonna]

Perhaps we're victims of our own technological success.  As operators, 
we've gotten so good at doing things like SO2R that we've exhausted the 
pool of available QSOs earlier in the contest.  A pool that is 30 hours 
in depth can now effectively be worked down in 22 hours.

Interestingly, that problem does not exist on SSB.  I could go through 
the published results and find dozens of calls that I didn't work over 
the course of a weekend.

73 Rich NN3W


On 11/9/2017 7:53 AM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> How many QSOs did the winners have back in the early years of SS?
>
> John KK9A
>
> To:	Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Subject:	Re: [CQ-Contest] So Sunday Sucked?
> From:	Ward Silver <hwardsil at gmail.com>
> Date:	Wed, 8 Nov 2017 21:19:14 -0600
> List-post:	<mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com>
>
>
> No.  Next question? :-)
>
> Remember that when Sweeps got started (1930) almost all hams were east of
> the Mississippi.  And there was no televised anything. That's probably the
> answer - maybe some of the folks who were around HQ in the 50s could fine
> tune it for us.  I have inquired of She Who Knows Such Things and will
> report my findings.
>
>
> 73, Ward N0AX
>
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