After considering pros and cons of this, I have to side with those who oppose. We have done the WPX CW as a serious M/S, so the beer drinking contest scenario Doug suggests does not apply. Yes, the o
Ken: Thank you for the information. After reading the basis you kindly provided, I remain unconvinced. As I read this, the difference then is having an imbalance of 3 single op categories: SOAB, SOAB
Dave: I could accept your comments without agreeing with them until you made the speculative accusation that those of us who oppose the change do so out of arrogance. While I was not even thinking ab
Doug has a great idea! This is certainly workable. W7VJ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/
Bob and Nate's comments say it all from my perspective. If there is no hard data to support a change in M/S leave it alone (or seek to conduct a pole, however unscientific that may be)... BUT, if it'
Too early... "pole" was meant to be "poll." Waking up now. 73 Message: 3 Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:08:58 -0800 From: "W7VJ" <w7vj@millerisar.com> Subject: [CQ-Contest] WPX M/S Proposed rule change Su
To my own amazement, I am quite ambivalent. For the more than two decades that I have been contesting, I have always been resigned to the fact that in the WW, the best I could ever hope to do is take
This weekend I had several U.S. stations calling me during the ARRL DX Contest. I do not like to ignore them, but don't want to take the time to work them. I settled in saying "sri no us in test tu"
First, many thanks to those of you who took the time to respond. Excellent thoughts and much appreciated. The virtually unanimous response was work them and move on. Indeed. Clearly, however uninform
Sorry, Ward, I don't get this... CQ DX? Then one might think that the station is DXing and not contesting adding to the confusion. I have yet to hear anyone in a contest consistently calling CQ DX. T
One of the things that immediately strikes me is the entitlement mentality to use of public resources. I would be the first to agree with the commenter's point on "heck with you" mentality (noted sev
Suggestions for leaving the assisted and unassisted categories make sense in the near term. Rather than a flash cut, why not leave the cluster/skimmer for the assisted, multi and "extreme" categories
While not posed as a solicitation for comment, I will note this at the risk of waxing philosophical: In my mind, contesters are made, but are made based on what they are born with: one's DNA, if you
I agree with Steve, though my sense is that this is not just in contesting, but sadly a reflection of society. We can choose to add to the malaise, or endeavor to rise above it. And, if one reaches a
Two observations: 1) Western PA and W5 (mentioned in KU8E's discussion about wins outside of the east coast), while geographically correct, does not take into account those of us in the extremities o
At the risk of raising an exceptionally controversial concept; if there is virtual unanimity in the acknowledged perpetual Northeast Coast dominance in DX contests from the U.S., why have a single U.
Perhaps the focus on geographic disparity has been aggravated by the growing disparity in scores between geographically challenged areas of the world and the others. Regardless, the topic seems to re