[NLRS] KC9BQA Contest Report

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Hi Todd.  Thanks for the report, sound like you did have some fun given the level of activity.  The September contest has suffered with a decreasing lack of activity through the last couple of years - perhaps someone can pull the trend together in terms of number of logs, but I know that the trend has been down.   This compares to an increasing trend for January and June (less sure about January, but I think it has been up, or at least not down like Sept).   Bill's comments about it being too close to the now more popular August UHF and the two 10 gig contests may be spot on.  Not sure what the answer is, but do we have too many contests?   Another thought that has been voiced by others is to change the September VHF contest format, perhaps to distance based scoring or ?? - there is no reason that the big three contest have to all be the same format.  Given that September has been on the decrease, would a change of rules draw more activity?   

73, Jon
W0ZQ