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What is your favorite contest & why?
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by N3AWS on August 8, 2009
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What is your favorite contest? Why do you like it best? How do you participate in it? Have you ever tried to interest other hams, youth, friends, etc. in operating it with you?
Mine is the Florida QSO Party followed in order by: Georgia QSO Party, ARRL & CQ VHF Contests, ARRL 10 Meter Contest, and Sweepstakes.
Why is the FL QSO Party my favorite? I have operated twice as a mobile in FL handing out counties on SSB. Man, is that fun! Change counties and instant pileup!
I've also operated the GA QSO Party mobile, but since I'm not a resident of GA it wasn't quite as enjoyable for me, but still a great time!
How about sharing your story?
73, Jim N3AWS
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by K0WA on August 8, 2009
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There are so many contest I like
NAQP RTTY-CW-SSB: Short sweet and fun
Sweepstakes - CW-RTTY: Grinding it out and fun
RTTY RU - Just fun
WPX - RTTY-CW-SSB: Fun
BARTG: Fun
The key word is FUN!
Others are OK.
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by K0WA on August 8, 2009
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There are so many contest I like
NAQP RTTY-CW-SSB: Short sweet and fun
Sweepstakes - CW-SSB: Grinding it out and fun
RTTY RU - Just fun
WPX - RTTY-CW-SSB: Fun
BARTG: Fun
The key word is FUN!
Others are OK.
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by N0UY on August 10, 2009
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Most Fun, Field Day, Stew Perry, NAQP, MNQPY, 160 CW, ARRL VHF & CQWW, CQWWDX, WPX
Most Challenging, Sweepstakes CW
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by N2EY on August 10, 2009
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I don't have a favorite contest; I have two favorites. The reason for two favorites is that they are so different from each other.
Favorite #1 is Field Day. Some would say FD isn't really a contest, but to me it is, even if the competition is more against Murphy than anything else.
I've done FD single-handed, with small groups, and with big groups. Near home and far away. CW and 'phone, HF and VHF. Serious contest-style and more laid-back. It's a social event, an experimental time, a publicity stunt, a full-blown contest. And I haven't missed one since my first way back in 1967, even before I had a license.
FD is unique as a contest because:
- No geographic multipliers
- Summertime contest
- Very short exchange plus you don't even send in the full log (just stations-worked-per-band/mode)
- Incredible number of categories
- You can work the same stations on each different band/mode
- Lots of modes all at the same time
- Lots of bonus points
- Lots of opportunity to try out and demonstrate different things
Favorite #2 is November CW SS. It's the opposite of FD:
- 80 geographic multipliers
- Wintertime contest
- Very long exchange and you have to get it all correct for the QSO to count
- Few categories (no multiple transmitters)
- You can work a station only once
- One mode, HF only
- No bonus points at all
First SS was 1968 and have only missed one since then (1977, when I lived in an apartment and had no HF setup)
73 de Jim, N2EY
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by K5END on August 12, 2009
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Favorite is: Texas QSO Party.
Why: 254 Counties, 770 miles wide, 790 miles long, and nothing but me, the bands and the TX Department of Public Safety Troopers who will make K-Band QSOs to help ensure my speedometer is calibrated properly.
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by N1YE on October 19, 2009
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ARRL Field Day was my very first and still my favorite contesting event. I like being outdoors and I like being with all of the people that participate. I love the tired, but satisfied feeling that follows enduring the night-shift in the CW tent. I sometimes even imagine that I still hear code in the tires of passing trucks as I drift off to sleep after Field Day.
I started contesting out of the desire to repeat this fun more often than once a year. My favorite non-Field Day contest is CQ WorldWide (CW).
Next, I like the ARRL 160M CW Contest and the NAQP.
I also like to participate in DX contests like WAG, Scandenavia Activity Contest, and The Black Sea Cup.
For me, a fun contest has lots of participants, good operators, and short exchanges. If the exchanges are too long and tedious and the pace is slow, I get bored.
I use contests to test out new equipment that I've built, Stumbling on to a rare country during a DX contest is not half-bad, either.
In the absence of a real contest, I sometimes make up one. I call it a Century Weekend where the goal is to work 100 QSO's, Any mode, Any band, between Friday night and Monday morning. It started out as a joke, but I have worked more valuable contacts, DX-peditions, Special events, and DX contests than if I had actually planned for these.
Fun...try it.
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