I do remember this from the ARRL DX. It was a major reason, back in the day,
for me playing in it. I did, for some reason, prefer CQ WW DX back then, but
can't recall why (maybe more "rare" DX showed up in it).
I think, in this digital age, Pete is right and it makes a lot of sense to go
this route...
73,
Julius
Julius Fazekas
N2WN
Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html
Tennessee QSO Party: Sunday, 6 Sept 2009
http://www.tnqp.org/
Elecraft K2/100 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366
--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com> wrote:
> From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Encouraging contest participation
> To: CQ-Contest@contesting.com
> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 7:16 AM
> Dave's right about the potential
> value of encouraging more casual
> participants. Just as happened to me 54 years ago,
> participation for
> purposes other than winning a certificate will result in
> some
> percentage catching the bug and becoming competitors.
>
> One thing that would be a big boost to participation by
> non-contesters would be to give award credit for contest
> QSOs that
> have been verified (cross-checked) by the log
> checkers. Surely, it
> would be a fairly trivial addition to the log-checking
> software to
> have it generate a separate list of the verified QSOs in
> some pretty
> universal format, which the awards folks could use to grant
> credit
> toward DXCC, WAS, WPX, WAZ or whatever. Talk about
> quick, low-cost
> gratification, obtainable nowhere else but through
> participation in contests!
>
> I can hear the screams now about diluting the "integrity"
> of the
> awards, but cheating scenarios involving collusion among
> participants
> in a contest to fabricate QSOs are pretty far fetched, and
> should be
> pretty easy to detect. I suppose people might also
> point to the loss
> of revenue by ARRL, particularly for DXCC, but I truly
> wonder if the
> awards program is a profit center for them, or more a
> question of
> loss mitigation.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
>
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