[CQ-Contest] SS and CW contesting

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

Overall the checks are a good indication, and just look around the room 
at the ages of the contesters.  I am 53 and younger than most.

Keep up the trolling John.



On 11/9/2017 9:04 AM, John Geiger wrote:
> "And MOST importantly look at the
> checks in the last SS."
>
> We can't do that since people can send whatever number they want.  Maybe
> lots of new hams are running the CWSS but they send checks in the 50s, 60,
> and 70s so people think they are really experienced hams, and so people
> can't use the prefills :)
>
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Bill via CQ-Contest <
> cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:
>
>> It has now been 10 years since the US went code-free and ham radio license
>> numbers are at ALL TIME highs - 750K total, half are general and extra that
>> have HF privileges. 30K new techs a year, 10K upgrades a year from tech to
>> general/extra. The problem for CW contesting is the number of hams that can
>> copy code at 20+ WPM is decreasing and will continue to do so. New hams are
>> on SSB/FM/digital. Look at the FT8 band segments on a bandscope. Look at
>> the
>> QSO totals in the RTTY contests. Read QST. And MOST importantly look at the
>> checks in the last SS.
>>
>> Looking at the number of submitted logs for a contest doesn't indicate how
>> the contest is doing, because it is now so easy to submit a log via web
>> page
>> copy and paste. A good indication is for all the ops that put in 22+ hours
>> last weekend to ask themselves if they HAD fun and if they look forward to
>> putting in 22+ hours next year? Did they feel like they couldn't wait for
>> it
>> to end? Were they squirming in their chair the last few hours?
>>
>> The only significant major contest scoring change I can think of in the
>> last
>> 45 years is WPX getting rid of zero point Q's. That's when I started
>> entering
>> the WPX. There needs to be some changes in the SS for those of us that
>> still
>> operate CW contests. Only 54 stations reported on 3830 operating 24 hours.
>> In
>> 2010 there were 125 stations. I don't see anything positive in that trend.
>>
>> 73, Bill KO7SS  (47 years operating CWSS)
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