Not really Kelly.
We have already spent the 2 years having the circular arguments. Time for
someone who its important to - to step up and lead.
If it takes an email campaign to generate interest, then the 2 years of
dialog have been bogus. There should be immediate and great interest in
such a contest.
There is no need for this contest to duplicate the CQWW approach. IARU and
ARRL DX do quite fine with a fraction of the oversight that CQWW is doing.
There is no reason to tie the contest to a published and printed magazine.
It could easily be epublished. Heck even CQWW was probably one more delayed
issue away from taking that step due to CQ Mags problems. That being said,
NCJ might be interested. Seeing how many pages they devote to line scores
of some pretty thin participation contests, this could be a big win for NCJ.
So either take the lead boys or stop complaining.
Ed N1UR
-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly Taylor [mailto:ve4xt@mymts.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 10:05 AM
To: sawyered@earthlink.net; George via CQ-Contest
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] DX Contest scoring schemes
Ed,
You're forgetting a few things, so just to help fill out the checklist:
1. Pick a contest date
2. Start a website.
3. Spend a year or two chasing circular arguments about what the rules
should be, 4. Begin an email campaign to generate interest 5. Organize a
slate of volunteers with unlimited travel budgets to check logs, visit
stations, cross-reference logs with SDR recordings, write the contest
results article, tabulate the Top 10 and multiple regional boxes, 6. Line up
sponsors to pay for plaques and for buying space in a magazine to publish
the results (since you probably don't own a magazine).
7. Put on your flame-proof underwear for the inevitible whinging about how
badly you screwed up the rules.
I think that covers it, yes?
73, kelly
ve4xt
On 5/28/15 8:24 AM, "Ed Sawyer" <sawyered@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Guys - Can we finish with this annually recurring topic and do
> something about it? Find a weekend in April or September, establish
> your dream contest rules, tell everyone to be there, set up a website,
> and see how it goes for a couple years. It should be amazingly
> popular with contesters west of the Mississippi in the US, all of
> Oceana, Deep Asia, and South America. The rest of US and EU I am sure
> will join in as usual. Count me in as well.
>
>
>
> If you insist on a contest that is existing be changed to try it, I
> would suggest the major contest with the absolute worst growth rate
> and demographics currently operating, ARRL Sweepstakes. Or, if it
> needs to be a DX contest, probably IARU RadioSport is the hind dog in the
pack fro growth.
> All other majors are growing quite nicely as is.
>
>
>
> 73
>
>
>
> Ed N1UR
>
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