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

[Jim Preston]

It isn't just new contesters that are turned off by those two things. 
Some of us who have been around awhile are also. Granted, I'm not as 
active as the big guns, but I would probably get more involved in SS if 
the exchange were shorter and we could work the same station on every band.

How about just sending the serial nr and section - maybe keep the year 
first licensed (or not?). I don't see any need to send the call as part 
of the exchange. I realize the exchange was originally based on the 
message format for traffic handling, but I don't think it serves a 
purpose for SS any more.

I haven't been in SS since 2013. I might make some QSO's this year, only 
because of the Grid Chase.

73,

Jim N6VH

On 3/14/2018 7:08 PM, Ed Sawyer wrote:
> 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.
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> Ed  N1UR
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> From: John Geiger [mailto:af5cc2 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 8:19 PM
> To: sawyered at earthlink.net
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> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] NCJ Article RE: Sweepstakes Change Suggestions
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> 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?
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> 73 John AF5CC
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> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:32 AM, Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> It seems that virtually all of the participants have been doing SS for
> decades and very few new people are adding in.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Ed  N1UR
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