[CQ-Contest] ARRL SS in the past

[Trent Sampson]

Makes Sense Steve

Rules need to be enforceable or at least not able to be tracked around - There is always a dipstick who thinks they are smart by bypassing rules - But sometimes rules are just plain dumb!!!! 

I notice that CQWW has dropped one of its rules - that originally said power output 1500W or whatever the local limit is ... the reference to local limit has been dropped - The assumption is that it was too hard to police.

Contesting especially CW Contesting; is looking very healthy at the present. 

73 

Trent VK4TS  

-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve London
Sent: Saturday, 11 November 2017 11:54 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS in the past

On 11/10/2017 11:04 PM, Dave Thompson wrote:
> The ARRL SS years ago was a two weekend affair and you had to pick the mode and the max of 40 hours out of 73 total allotted.
>
> Virtually everyone ran 150 watts input or less as there was a multiplier for each QSO of 1.25 om CW and 1.5 on phone.

If I recall correctly, there was plenty of power cheating because of this multiplier. Hence, the multiplier was eliminated if favor of different categories.

73,
Steve, N2IC
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