[EIDXA] CQ Marathon

[Joe Hetrick]

	Hi folks,

	Is there any interest in resurrecting the EIDXA Marathon?

   A few years ago we ran an EIDXA Marathon with the intent of having members be active, work some new ones and submit to CQ.  Participation was somewhat low and I tried to spice things up by having a few different tops score displays.

  One idea I had was to help some of the associate members, or members who have just crested the 100 mark put more in the log and still shine.  In addition to maintaining:

Mode (RTTY/CW/Phone)
Total worked

for high-scores displayed, what if we did one for ATNO?  This, as with everything, would be honor-system.  Each time folks uploaded their log for the totals, they could put in the number of ATNO's they've gotten up to that point.

My thinking is that for folks who aren't running KW's and beams, but who are getting more in the log that they've never worked before; sure you may only work 100 stations the whole year; but what if 50 of those are ATNO for you?  Thats a big big deal.

  My thoughts would be to encourage participation from everyone; I know we had some pretty big scores (including a top 3 international), but I wondered if those were a bit intimidating to more normal members.

  I haven't poked around the new spreadsheets to see about parsing them and auto-generating a tops-list as we had before, that would take a bit of time; but I wanted to re-float the idea to see if it was worth investing any time.

  Is there anythiing else reasonable that folks feel would get them to play?

73's

Joe KC0VKN