[CQ-Contest] NCJ Article RE: Sweepstakes Change Suggestions

[Ed Sawyer]

Personally, I think its long exchange and that you can’t work people more than once in the contest.  So rates slow down.  Many of the aspects that the SS crowd likes about the contest.  But that just my opinion.

 

73

 

Ed  N1UR

 

From: John Geiger [mailto:af5cc2 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 8:19 PM
To: sawyered at earthlink.net
Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] NCJ Article RE: Sweepstakes Change Suggestions

 

Do we know why there are fewer new contesters doing the SS than other contests?  Maybe the long exchange?  Any other things turning off new licensees from this contest?

73 John AF5CC

 

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:32 AM, Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net> wrote:

I think that SS has a number of fundamental issues in todays contesting
environment.  Not sure that changing the start and end times changes it.



It seems that virtually all of the participants have been doing SS for
decades and very few new people are adding in.



If the people that do it every year want changes, great.  But I think that
the notion it makes SS less slow on Sunday, or increases participation are
misguided.



The concept of allowing more than one QSO per band has merit to me, but I
have never been an SS fan due to the SLOW 50% of the contest.



73



Ed  N1UR

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