[CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest Digest, Vol 179, Issue 21

[Ria Jairam]

I like it that way. This way I can get things done on Saturday then in
the evening hunker down and run the contest.

This is a refreshing change from DX contests where if you work a
regular job you're rushing home on Friday night to get the station
ready... OR you have to take the day off.

SS is the everyman's contest...

73
Ria, N2RJ

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:46 AM, Eric Gruff <egruff at cox.net> wrote:
> I empathize with you, Bill. I am very familiar with the situation you have,
> because in many VHF contests, 6 Meters is wide open from the Rockies or
> Mississippi River and east, but completely dead on the West Coast. After a
> few hours of trying to work all of the five or ten San Diego locals, I go
> find something else to do. Then I read the soapbox, where stations along the
> East Coast complain that they only worked 20 or 30 grid squares due to poor
> propagation.
>
> One thing that I wonder - why does SS start so late on Saturday? It's 2 PM
> Pacific and 5 PM Eastern, which leads to a Sunday eve/night finish for most
> folks. If it started 3 or 4 hours earlier, not only would it be more "prime
> time" both days, but we'd all probably enjoy the extra three hours of
> propagation on 20 M (and maybe 15) at the start. This seems like an easy,
> non-controversial change that will make the final few hours of the contest
> more user-friendly for almost everyone.
>
> NC6K
>
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> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest Digest, Vol 179, Issue 14
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> Last two hours a bonus round?   Gee, that's nice since 20 is closed out in
> KH6 and 40 isn't open yet.
>
>
> Better idea is to make it a 24 hour contest and you get to work all 24....no
> time off.
>
>
> Bill K4XS/KH7XS
>
>
>
> -----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
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Glad to see other folks proposing many of the same ideas here. Maybe ARRL
> will consider some of them.
>
>
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