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

[Radio K0HB]

I love SS specifically because the long unpredictable exchange requires
Radioman skill to actually COPY something.

73, de Hans, K0HB






On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:02 Jim Preston <jpreston1 at cox.net> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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73, de Hans, K0HB
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