That's what WPX is all about -- Work all Prefixes. It's has nothing to do
with geography, just call sign prefixes. A single op can work over 1000
multipliers in 36 hours. It's basically a "run contest". If you run, plenty
of mults come to you. In SO2R, the second radio helps, but it's more for
boosting the QSO count than looking for mults (the mults come with the QSOs
for free.) In other words, you should be running all the time on the
most-open band. Dedicated S&P serves no purpose. On the second radio you
don't have to think about whether you need a mult or not. Just work the
station if you haven't worked it before on that band. Note that QSOs with
countries other than your own on the low bands (40, 80, 160) count double.
Also note that new prefixes count only once, not once per band.
It's a really fun contest -- try it!
73, Dick WC1M
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ham Email [mailto:nw7d.ham@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 9:55 AM
> To: Tom Shelton
> Cc: <writelog@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Miscounting multipliers in WPX?
>
> Thanks, somehow it does not make sense that every vanity call or 2x call
> that has a different letter in front of the zone # would each count as a
> new multiplier, i.e. WA6, WB6, WC6, WD6, etc. all count as multipliers.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Feb 9, 2013, at 6:28 AM, "Tom Shelton" <gl1800winger@verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
> > In the WPX contests, the prefixes (the PX in WPX) are the multipliers.
> So WM6 and W6 are separate multipliers, as would be K3, K4, K5 etc...
> >
> > Writelog is figuring them properly.
> >
> >
> >
> > Tom Shelton, AB3IC
> > (240) 434-3811
> >
> > Always be yourself...
> > Unless you can be a Unicorn...
> > Then always be a Unicorn...
> > -----Original Message----- From: Ham Email
> > Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 9:17 AM
> > To: writelog@contesting.com
> > Subject: [WriteLog] Miscounting multipliers in WPX?
> >
> >
> > I am using version 11.08B and Writelog is counting characters
> preceding the same call area as different multipliers in the WPX.
> Example: WM6A and W6AEA are both handled as mults in same band. Am I
> confused about scoring or is there something wrong with Writelog?
> >
> > Tks Gordon NW7D
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
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