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

[Jim Brown]

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.

The long exchange makes it one of the few contests that requires that 
you copy anything that you didn't already know! There are far too many 
like this. Like CQWW, ARRL DX, and the RAC contests.

The current long contest hours and start/stop times make it possible to 
operate from two QTHs with different rigs and calls, making Sunday a lot 
more fun both for those who do and for others looking for new stations 
to work.

Allowing a QSO per band would give east coast and midwest stations the 
same huge advantage during low sunspot years that the east coast enjoys 
in DX contests, and which discourages participation by west coast 
stations. 10M has been dead out west for nearly a year, and 15 is on 
it's way there. That gives the west coast one band on which to work 
second and third tier stations in the much higher population density 
areas east of the Mississippi.

73, Jim K9YC