[CQ-Contest] Scary

[Dave Edmonds]

The Rookie Roundup just doesn't work! It's nothing like the GLORY DAYS of
the NOVICE ROUNDUP back in the late 1970's! I'll never forget that
experience... Now folks are trying to forget about the RR experience.
Anyone on the list interested in creating a REAL alternative to the RR?
Send me an email at daveedmo at gmail.com. One day Joe.

73s Dave WN4AFP

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 10:37 PM Stanley Zawrotny <k4sbz.stan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I invited a rookie to my station last year. We couldn’t find very many
> participants. It made a bad impression.
>
> Stan, K4SBZ
>
> "Real radio bounces off the sky."
>
> > 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
> > Sig
> > The Original Rolling Ball Clock
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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
> >>>
> >>> ________________________________
> >>> From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of
> N4ZR <
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> >>> Sent: Monday, November 4, 2019 5:44 PM
> >>> To: cq-contest at contesting.com <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> >>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Scary
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>>> "Just a boy and his radio"™
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