" I will gently point out that nothing prevents you from doing that as a Contest Within A Contest right now. As long as the contacts are valid under the CQ WW rules, you can score them any way you li
How much difference a decade makes! Whenseveral of us suggested that we implement a CWAC to try out a 24-hour category within CQWW, Bob Cox angrily rejected the idea, saying that not a single QSO in
This is always brought up as an argument why distance-based scoring shouldn't be considered- "if the idea is applied to xxx contest, nothing much changes." The problem is that the location defined by
The problem with distance-based scoring for HF bands above 160 (and its even a problem on 160), is that even with extra credit for working extra distance (say from VE4 to Europe stedda K1 to Europe),
The CQ WW CLASSIC Overlay category is a great example of a contest within a contest. There is certainly room for more Overlay options provided they will increase both activity and enjoyment. The IARU
CQ zones divide the world into 40 arbitrary groupings. Perhaps that is close enough to get started. Or you could use ITU zones. That divides the world into 75 (?) zones. The cty files put out by AD1C
Author: Alan Dewey via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 14:50:53 -0500
Pete; In my last report to the ARRL BOD as CAC Chairman in January 2015, the CAC did in fact make a recommendation that ARRL Contest logs be made public starting with the ARRL DX Contest. This report
Correction: So, why should you get more credit for your 500 Asian QSOs than the VE4 who is lucky to get 10 JAs? Should read: So, why should you get more credit for each of your 500 Asian QSOs than th
I wrote a convenience class around the QRZ.com API in Python (and some other lookup services). It's easy to use and very well tested (250+ unit tests). Code: https://github.com/dh1tw/pyhamtools Docum
I wrote a convenience class around the QRZ.com API in Python (and some other lookup services). It's easy to use and very well tested (250+ unit tests). Code: https://github.com/dh1tw/pyhamtools Docum
I came late to this discussion (my bad), but it is done all the time in State QPs. For example, Kansas QP has an opportunity to do a clean sweep of 1X1 calls, Florida is the same, other QPs have litt
Randy and I discussed the Classic overlay before it was announced. Alas, theCQ committee failed to to go the whole way and make the 24-hour limitation the *only* change from full-fledged. I still fai