[CQ-Contest] Least favorite operating month

[Mike Fatchett W0MU]

If you do not submit logs for a score or placing do what you want.  That 
rule was put in place for a specific reason to stop clubs from padding 
their scores doing exactly what you describe. If I am not competing I 
don't have to follow the rules.  If I decide to get on for the NAQSO 
party I can run legal power as my license allows.  I used to run 1 alpha 
in FD from home using my Alpha amp.  Yes I had huge pile ups and it was 
great fun.

Is a contest really that successful when the participants have to game 
the game on Sunday to keep things interesting.  We never hear this with 
ARRL DX or CQ WW.

W0MU

On 7/31/2025 6:19 PM, jimk8mr--- via CQ-Contest wrote:
>   A simple change that would make a lot of people happy:  Do away with the ARRL's one radio/one callsign/one location rule.
>
> For many years I did the "Single Operator - Multi Station" effort, spending six hours from each of four locations, one of my which was my QTH. With the "fresh meat" factor my rate went up as the contest went on, and nobody ever complained about having three extra stations to work.
>
> I've stepped back in recent years, in part because the first weekend on November is when I'm relocating to snowbird land. Last year the hurricanes in Florida delayed the trip south, so I started at my QTH, then went to W8KEN (now SK) and K8AZ, before returning to my QTH to fire up W3USA, albeit using a different radio. I did about four hours from each place. The rate as W3USA, running A power, was the best of the weekend.
>
> I think the one and done rule came out of concern that someone would get on and work fellow club members with multiple callsigns to boost a club score total. If that is the concern, modern log checking could spot calls repeatedly showing up in only certain club logs.
>
> Allowing multiple callsigns, with a minimum off time before resuming a call's use, would allow rate junkies to keep going, and give a lot of extra calls for the 24 hour diehards to keep busy with.
>
> And set up a listing of the sum of scores from a multiple callsign operator. In my serious SO-MS efforts my total scores would come close to the highest scoring single ops. I'd have more QSOs, but typically miss a few sections from each stop. That would make for an interesting competition.
>
> Note that CQ does not have such a rule for their contests. I've operated WPX and CQ 160 contests with multiple calls from my station, and nobody has ever complained about having another call (and perhaps multiplier) to work.
>
> 73   -   Jim   K8MR
>
>      On Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 06:55:54 AM EDT, john at kk9a.com <john at kk9a.com> wrote:
>
>   Many of those who posted in favor of a second SS have not operated the
> entire 24 hours of the current sweepstakes contest.  I don't think the long
> exchange is an issue, it's just that working stations only once regardless
> of the band really limits the activity.  The ARRL Sweepstakes starts out
> fast and fun but it can get brutally slow near the end, especially on the CW
> leg.  I am not proposing a rule change but I think one SSB and one CW
> Sweepstakes per year is adequate.
>
> John KK9A  (W4AAA in SS)
>
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>
> Doug Grant k1dg wrote:
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>
> Isn't SS the contest everyone says is dying because the exchange is too
> long and there's no activity on Sunday afternoon?
>
> Can we reboot the existing one before we add a second one?
>
> 73.
>
> Doug K1DG
>
>
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