There is a MUCH MORE SIMPLE way to kill half of the objections being made and that come around every year. Just have a default "own country and zone" double mult added for the first Q on each band. T
Relative to Richards last point. You can actually just enter your own call as the first Q as you start a band, and it instantly gives you the double mult and zero Q points. Just allow that method and
Randy's note well received for the current rules. I was mentioning that the change in the rules would be that easy. Ed CAUTION: The CQ WW log checking software ignores QSOs with your own call. I.e.,
"Make States and Provinces multipliers, and award 1 point for domestic QSOs. Who knows, it might be fun." K0SR It might be fun for sure. But it will change the best, growing, popular contest. How abo
Why are we beating up the CQWW contest? SS and NAQP are not fair either. Just advantage those outside W1 and W2 so somehow that makes it okay that they are unfair. Same propagation problems and the s
Dayton is really 2 things happening at the same time in my opinion. There is some overlap but how much is there actually? It's a convention in the normal sense. There are paid booths and paid attenda
You can't make something more like the Olympics that is fundamentally flawed in how it works. The Olympics tests people on EXACTLY the same event regionally with people competing head to head. Those
Jim, I defer to your experience on the past WRTCs. Its unquestionable. However, there are 2 points to be made here: - The way you described qualifying for 2014 will NOT work for 2018. The Multis are
The point of the team member choice discussion is not about forcing teams which obviously helps no one. Its about calling all of the participants qualifying when only half qualified. It's a long way
Should we have categories for people who paid to have their towers put up and for people who built their own radios as well? Ed N1UR _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
I am here in Brittany France and have a small set up next to the sea for a couple of weeks. It is an inverted vee only about 30 ft up in a tree but its less than 100 yards to the ocean with a clear s
Seems like the best solution all the way around is to change the skimmer code to just report what it hears. If you are going to start making "exceptions to the rule", you are just inviting trouble. B
I started boycotting it a couple of years ago. While Bob's saga is the worst I have ever heard of, the RDXC has had a history of changing scores drastically and there is no way you can make heads or
In addition to all ARRL HF contests being 150W for Low Power, the CQ WW 160 contests are also 150W. The extra 50W matters in very marginal QSO attempts like 160 and on 10 M when the signals are on th
Matt, Interesting discussion. There is certainly no evidence of that in the marketplace that I see. But in concept, it makes sense. only a few dB down in the low power contesting world, is fatal, fro
Congrats to all for enduring the worst slog in decades this weekend. I overheard Frank, W3LPL, say it was the worst score since starting up his famous station in the mid 80s. A number of people, in t
Doug and Hans The shift that Karl is talking about is interesting and could have 160M affect but that?s not what was going on last weekend. It was an intense Geomagnetic storm caused by a Solar Wind.
W0MU asked: "Why does the USA always get "punished"?" in the CQ WW Contest. Answer: Because it's a DX contest! A better question is, why are we all forced to work a station in our country just to get
If it's a DX contest that you desire, why not change the scoring system to be based on the Maidenhead 2 x 1 degree grid square system that's used in the VHF/UHF world? Logging software would have to
"I'm not really sure what the fix to this problem is" wrote KU8E. Jeff, until the world's biggest contest stops growing or reduces significantly, why does it need to be fixed? The bigger question is,