[SECC] SS Club Competition - Going for the Gavel

[Dan/W4NTI]

Bill,

I intend to be on both SS weekends.  I am trying to get some locals into 
contesting and may have a large, full time effort going.  Since I have the 
Tri-bander up I can now run two radio's,  etc.

Dan/W4NTI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Coleman" <aa4lr at arrl.net>
To: "secc" <secc at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:28 PM
Subject: [SECC] SS Club Competition - Going for the Gavel


>
> I've spent some time looking at some statistics of the Medium
> category for the SS Affiliated Club Competition. You do realise that
> the SECC took second place to the Southern California Contest Club,
> by less than 12% difference in score, don't you?
>
> And they did it with one additional log -- 35 submitted to our 34.
>
> I think there's a good chance we can win the Medium category in SS.
>
> I pulled some numbers from the web site for last year's results, and
> found a few interesting things:
>
> 1) More than 1/3 of our club score came from three people: K4BAI,
> N4PN and N4LR, who put in full-time efforts in both modes.
>
> 2) 52% of the operator hours were spent on CW, whereas Phone provided
> 54.2% of our score.
>
> 3) A few guys that submitted scores for both CW and Phone were very
> lopsided in their results: N4GG, K4TD, W4ATL and K4LW had only 10-20%
> of their points on Phone, whereas KT4Q and AA4LR submitted less than
> 1% of their results using CW. Most of this was due to differences in
> time spent. (eg I did all 24 in Phone, but only 1 hour in CW)
>
> --
>
> So, I'm thinking about ways we could improve our score by 12% or
> more, perhaps targeting 4 million points. I think the club can do it,
> but there's a couple of principles that need to be applied.
>
> 1) Our club is based on the idea of promoting contest operation -- so
> anything that inhibits someone from operating doesn't sound like a
> good idea. (eg "Gee, Bill, why don't you skip SS CW and let someone
> else submit a better score in that slot?")
>
> 2) I like the idea of inclusiveness of the club, so even a newbie
> should feel like his effort counts for something. So, we shouldn't do
> anything to denegrate anyone's efforts (eg "Gee, Bill, 242 pts in 1
> hour of working CW is pretty darn bad -- maybe you should submit that
> score for the Southeaster DX Club....")
>
> --
>
> With that in mind, here's some ideas:
>
> 1) More scores. We had 22 members submit scores for SS, with a total
> of 34 logs submitted. That means we have room for 16 more logs and
> still stay in the Medium category. We need to have more people get
> on, and operate in SS and submit their logs.
>
> 2) More points. I'm sure everyone is out to make the most points they
> can, in the time they have. Some people turned in impressive scores
> with big efforts. But even the little guys can contribute something
> significant. There may be ways to make more points. For example, this
> year, I know I can only work CW part-time. So, I might as well turn
> on the amp and maybe put myself in the Unlimited category to beef up
> my score.
>
> 3) More hours. I'm also sure everyone spends as much time as they can
> contesting. Fall is so tough with 6 major contests in the space of
> 7-8 weeks. Not everyone can go full-time. But, if you plan on
> submitting a score, perhaps you can try to work as many hours as you
> can. I know I plan to put in quite a few more hours in CW than the
> measly 1 I did last year.
>
> Whose up for SS this year? I'll be FT in Phone, and PT in CW.
>
>
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
>             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
>
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