The preliminary rules for the 2010 CQ WPX Contest are now available for review and comment. See the summary of changes on the CQ WPX blog: http://www.cqwpx.com/blog/?p=50 The major change is to the M
Hello I think these new rules really, really destroy the M/S and M/2 category in WPX. Now you remove the fun of having a bunch of ops running the contest together. These new rules remove the point of
Al Crespo (F5VHJ) and George Fremin III (K5TR) both make very valid points. I think the question is, how would the rule change affect the following considerations? 1. Would we gain or lose activity?
IMHO, the proposed changes to the M/S rules make very little difference. I'm still going to use 2 radios, and keep 2 ops busy all the time, but have a lockout to prevent simultaneous transmissions. O
Maybe there is another way to look at it. M/S with 6 radios is not really M/S, it a small multi-multi, and this class is better covered with M/2. If you have enough folks to really run two radios, wh
Transmitter lockouts. Great. Just great. What is wrong with the SIMPLE concept that a Multi/SINGLE station involves use of a SINGLE transmitter(transceiver)? What is wrong with the SIMPLE concept tha
Normally we cannot choose the rules for a contest but in this case, my feedback to Randy is to don't change WPX m/s rules. I think the use of the multiplier station is really cool and almost all the
I agree with Mike. M/S - the old CQ style - was fun, and took some thought and strategy. M/S - the new CQ style - well, it's turned it into an ARRL style M/S class with prefix's for a mult. Not as mu
Hej Mike! Have you ever worked WPX in M/S class? It is one of the most boring contests for multiplier station on Sunday because 95% of mults (of mult stn) have been worked on Saturday. New rule keep
Timo, do U really call 4 QSOs / hour "busy" ?? :-) I don't think what you call "Sunday boredom" is at any time less productive than 4 QSOs / hour... Mikey and KQ2R is right on this one. 73, Zoli HA1
Completly agree with Timo ! even there is no more difference from previous rules and the new one, u still need to have same HW and SW and same amount of operators, that instead of working mults at th
It's my opinion that the hue and cry over this change is much ado about nothing. My experience from every WPX contest I've been in for the past decade is that chasing prefix mults is unnecessary. The
Hello, I agree 100% with Stefano. There is a lots of work in WPX contest with mult station even at the end of the contest. Also it needs a lot of strategy not only running and running and running. I
The M/S category should be IDENTICAL to Single Op Assisted except that multiple operators share the operating responsibility. Eliminating multiplier stations is an improvement but the new multi-singl
I would like to make a comment on N6XI's comment about using an "octopus," and it being unethical.... I operated from a certain station when I lived in Ohio who had such a system. We won Multi-Op for
I don't understand how you get 4 qsos per hour only. You are going to work new multipliers only when you make a band change? 73, Timo OH1NOA _______________________________________________ CQ-Contes
Hello Timo, Yes, a few years ago. That's still less boring than hearing lots of mults on saturday and sunday and be unable to work *ANY* of them on the second radio. -- Famous Sport Quotes: "Don't lo
The answer to this question, and many other interesting questions, can be found at http://www.cqwpx.com/score_db.htm . This database is one of the many fine things that Randy has done for the WPX con
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:52:05 -0800
If that's a concern, then the simple answer for your situation is to operate your station as M/2. If you look at the top WPX scores, you'll see that one out of every 4 QSOs on average is a new multip