[CQ-Contest] Scary

[Edward Sawyer]

There is a running assumption in SS discussions that all new contesters somehow end up doing SS.  I find that hardly to be the case actually.  Many contesters don’t like sweepstakes.  No offense to those that love it.  Its just the reality.  So making contester-wide conclusions on checks from SS is just misplaced.

I don’t doubt the demographic trend.  But SS is not the contest universe.  Its just SS.

73

Ed N1UR

-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of John Geiger
Sent: Monday, November 4, 2019 11:21 PM
To: AB2E Darrell
Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Scary

How many rookie operators are showing up in the CW version of the Rookie Roundup?  That might give us a good indication of what the expect in the CW SS in years to come.

73 John W5TD

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 9:41 PM AB2E Darrell <ab2e at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Pete,
> Good point about the new ops showing up.
> It's been 3 or 4 years since I operated SS CW more than just a couple 
> hours.
> I noticed quite a few CKs from 00-18. Also quite a number of ops 
> coming back to my CQ at between 17-21 WPM.
> While I like to typically operate at 30+wpm in contests, I try to slow 
> down for the slower ops that came back.
> I think it will help them hang in there. Sometimes I just slowed down 
> some, like to 24 or 25 so as to still challenge them and hopefully 
> help improve their speed.
>
> There seems to be some attrition in the diehard 24hour high-speed 
> operators, but perhaps that;s my imagination.
> I'm thinking back to the 90s and 80s when on Sunday afternoon a lot of 
> operators had 1000+ QSO counts, only worked a few of those on Sun this 
> year, and one of those was Multi.
>
> 73 Darrell AB2E
>
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> The one I got from the N1MM site had over 10,000.  I was surprised by 
> how many people weren't in it.  My theory, at least, is that there's a 
> little new blood every year, and a good thing.  Too many checks in the 50s.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 11/4/2019 1:09 PM, Radio KØHB wrote:
> > I loaded a “call history” file into N1MM+ for this weekends SS CW.
> >
> > Out of over 500 contacts, just seven were NOT in that file.  Five of
> them had checks from the last century.
> >
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