[PaQSO] I disagree

Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:31:36 -0400

My, how times have changed...

How many of you remember when a county clean sweep was not possible because
not all 67 counties were active?  Or when all of the results fit on both
sides of ONE piece of paper (I still have a few of those in the filing
cabinet!)?   Heck, I remember when the contest was in SEPTEMBER -- and why
it was moved, which turned out to be one of the best things that ever
happened to it.

Have we gone from the days when a Clean Sweep was something to celebrate to
something considered so "routine" that it's not challenging ENOUGH?

I've come close, in the 25+ years I've operated (from club stations, from
home, mobile or portable) but never quite made one yet.   Still, it is
easier to work one than it once was.

So, I could go along with a "double sweep" recognition -- one all phone, one
all CW -- as an endorsement to the regular sweep, but that's about it.
Three awards seems a bit excessive.

And I'll be out there looking again this October.

73, ron wn3vaw

"And they give you cash,
which is just as good as money!"
Yogi Berra, AFLAC Commercial, 2002

----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Raymer <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 12:30 PM
Subject: [PaQSO] I disagree

>I think it was Jim, K8MR that mentioned working all 67 county's on SSB
AND
>CW to qualify for the sweep award, and as a new set of 67 mults also.
Seems
>we've generated so much activity that getting the sweep is a little on
the
>easy side now. I've been lucky enough to get the sweep 5 or 6  years
>running...but seems I get it rather late in the contest each year. How
>about "Worked all countys CW AND SSB", or maybe two separate awards
>(worked

A Little Easy??????? I don't think it is easy to get a sweep when you
have mobiles that activate counties that have been dead for hours. Plus
you have a few that Run mobile QRP, making it worse for everyone to work
them.  Easy, This called being at the right time in the right place and
having your Packet DX cluster on! I  think it is a good idea to have 3
categories for the sweep, one for CW, SSB and one for Both.

Another thing, i hate to get like most other contests like FD or
something like that, but i think the possibility of adding a digital mode
to the Test would be interesting as well.

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