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

[cqtestk4xs at aol.com]

This definitely not true for the Phone SS.


I worked over 350 stations with a check of 2010 or later in the latest  Phone SS.  Almost 50 of these were a CK of 17.


For CW, the answer is easy.  Most of the 2010 to present simply do not know the code and almost all can not copy 20+ required for SS.  Couple this with the long exchange, and it explains the low newbie numbers on SS CW.  Out of 950 contacts in the SS CW, I had 20 with a CK of 2010 or later and only one with a CK of 17.  Double this number to compare it to the SSB numbers and you'll see what I mean.


No code licenses are an death knell for SS CW.


Bill K4XS/KH7XS



-----Original Message-----
From: John Geiger <af5cc2 at gmail.com>
To: sawyered <sawyered at earthlink.net>
Cc: cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thu, Mar 15, 2018 11:42 am
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.
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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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> 73
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> Ed  N1UR
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