[CQ-Contest] Contest Burnout

[Joe]

Over 70? Geez How about over 60 guys?
The days of doing any of the CQWW Contests 48 hours is LONG gone!
Geez I can't even do 24 hour ones anymore.
6 to 8 hour tests non-stop is about my limit now.

Myself I'd like to see a contest where strategy plays a major role in 
the contest, not just pure stamina and or great stations. A contest 
where you get rewarded by working the harder ones to work more than the 
easy contacts.

A contest where the understanding propagation, plays a major role.

A contest where it is not a marathon.

Joe WB9SBD

On 12/2/2022 9:23 PM, robert wa1fcn wrote:
>
>     GE Pete
>
>     Your post hit close to home.  In the past 2 years I have begun to 
> lose my
>
>     desire to continue on. I have made over 500 Qso in 4 contest and just
>
>     said ah I don't want to continue on.  The last major contest I 
> have won
>
>     was in 2015.  At least I am trying to hang in there for the mid 
> level contest.
>
>     If there is a way to combat this  I would like to know it also. 
> Maybe a contest
>
>     just for us over 70 guys.
>
>                 73  BoB WA1FCN
>
>
> On 12/2/2022 5:21 PM, w1rm at comcast.net wrote:
>> I would like to have a serious discussion regarding contest burnout.  
>> I'm
>> not interested in nasty or snide comments but rather a real 
>> discussion on
>> those, like me, who are suffering from it and have overcome it.
>>
>>
>> I have been a serious contester since the late 1960s.  I am a CW guy and
>> have won CQWW, ARRL DX, and a bunch of others.  I have been a regular
>> participant in many of the majors for a very long time and have a 
>> wall full
>> of plaques for my efforts.
>>
>>
>> After 66 years of contesting, I'm faced with ben there, done that.  
>> At 80
>> years old, I am not going to win anything, and I know it.  I don't 
>> have the
>> stamina.  My station used to be very competitive, and it still is, but I
>> don't do SO2R, I only have one beam/antenna per band.  I do have 
>> top-grade
>> gear, though.
>>
>>
>> So, I would appreciate some honest thoughts about how to combat contest
>> burnout.
>>
>>
>>
>> Pete Chamalian, W1RM
>>
>> W1RM at Comcast.net
>>
>>
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