lew@teleport.com wrote:
>
> Ladies & Gentlemen of the contesting Community,
> I propose moving the time limit for S/O for the CQ-WPX back to 30 or
> even 28 hours, from the recently extended 36 hours. Why, you query??? Well
> to save it.
^^^^^^^^^^
Just my opinion, of course, but...
I think not. The wall to wall signals I hear are not the whimpering last
gasps of a dying contest. The WPX strategizing at the PVRC/NC chapter
meetings are not over a dying contest.
Nuthin, but nuthin will eliminate the advantage the East Coast has to
EU. As I recall, was rumored that W6VSS was running 10 KW on 20 meters
& got caught by the FCC. This was quite a while ago (25 years?).
Interesting to note that it didn't equalize the diff. There might be a
way to fix a few things all at one time.
For bragging rights, scores listed by zone.
New exchange: NNNN/ZZ NNNN is serial. ZZ is zone. (Drop the
meaningless 59)
Scoring rules: same zone or same country: 1 point
else geographically adjacent zone: 3 points
else same continent: 5 points
else different continent: 7 points
Note that this reduces the east coast advantage to western EU since
zones 5 and 14 are adjacent.
West Coast & mid-america gets 7 points for those. This will give Eastern
EU a help out over West EU for the same reason.
Times band multiplier, which need not be an integer, suggest:
160 3
80 2.5
40 2
20 1
15 1
10 2
These could be adjusted yearly based on expected propagation, for
instance 3 years ago, 10 meters could have been a times 5 and 15 meters
a times 3.
Just my strange thoughts. I could be mistaken.
Where's my flame retardant zip suit and face guard...
73, all. Guy.
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Guy L. Olinger
Apex, NC, USA
k2av@qsl.net
'AV since '74, previously K4VDL, K3FKJ, W2HVA.
(Remember those? Get in touch!)
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