[CQ-Contest] Scary

[Stanley Zawrotny]

I invited a rookie to my station last year. We couldn’t find very many participants. It made a bad impression.

Stan, K4SBZ

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> On Nov 5, 2019, at 10:52 AM, Joe <nss at mwt.net> wrote:
> 
> The Rookie Roundup is dismal! It is NOTHING like the Novice Roundup of like the 70's
> Participation levels are soo low, that a pretty good portion of the sections, you can make just one contact and take first place because no one enters in from there.
> 
> When the ARRL thought about bringing this contest back, I wish they kept the same old format of like 9 or 10 days operating window, but still only use 124 to 30 hours of operating time.
> 
> Just modernize it with the new modes that a newly licensed person can use.  IE: 3 Modes CW, SSB, Digital.
> And like Field Day you can work them on each band and each mode.
> 
> Same with Mults each band and mode to encourage people to try different bands and modes.
> 
> Joe WB9SBD
> 
> That would have been a BLAST
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>> On 11/4/2019 10:20 PM, John Geiger wrote:
>> 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.
>>>> 73, de Hans, KØHB
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