Gents, Implementing of 1-pointers would turn the CQ WW contests upside down and might totally discourage people from participation. Why? Because there will be 2 countries in the world addicted to be
You are right, Vladimir, and congratulations with the Canadian Callsign! 73's Andrei EW1AR-NC2N Implementing of 1-pointers would turn the CQ WW contests upside down and might totally discourage peopl
One way or another, it would be a totally different contest. Am I wrong? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Right in that it would be a slightly different contest. Wrong
Not hardly ... CQWW RTTY already includes 1 point for "own country QSOs" and multipliers for each US State/VE Province. That hardly discourages participation. In my opinion, it increases participatio
Bill, the solution is to adopt the CQWW RTTY scoring rules. In CQWW RTTY, "own country QSOs" are worth one point. In addition US States and VE Provinces are multipliers. Those changes would put US st
I´m happy to read that you guys in North America wants this. By all means, I´m game, lets do it!!! IX. QSO Points: One QSO point for contacts within your own country. Two QSO points for c
I doubt KC1XX or L3LR or even NQ4I is going to invest a lot of time and effort into making sure they work ME in a DX contest. In the WPX, the ARRL 10 meter, even the ARRL 160 it is common to get igno
This may be true, but isn't part of the rationale to significantly increase participation in a type of contest (RTTY) that is otherwise a distant third to the CW and phone tests? 73 Rich NN3W rules.
That sure seems right. The same reason that you can work dupes in the RTTY sprint. RTTY contests are getting much more popular, however. Thanks in no small part to soundcards and the software that us
With soundcards and software (MixW, MMTTY, WinWarbler, etc.) that offer "Contest Modes" I will bet that participation levels in CQWW RTTY will be very close to those of CQWW CW within five years. To
Steady on Joe, you are making me think that I am already over the hill at 44yrs. Then again, having a look at the recent high speed cw competition held in Zagreb earlier this year with under 16 year