The ARI contest is this coming weekend. Rules at:
http://www.ari.it/images/stories/hf/ARI_International_DX_Contest_2011_Rules-1.pdf
There is something in the scoring rules that makes no sense to me. You
can work your own country once per band for multiplier credit only, but
no point credit. Unlike some other contests, there is no division of a
country into call areas. A country is an entire country, period.
Just to be sure I understood it correctly, I put some test Q's into N1MM
Logger and that is indeed how it is scored.
I can envision calling CQ and getting hundreds of calls from my own
country, only one of which does me any good (per band). I can not really
refuse to work them because for them, I might be a multiplier. Thus,
huge amounts of wasted time. And yet each station does need to work his
own country once per band.
If the purpose of the rules is to encourage DX contacts only, why not
make one's own country zero credit? No points, no mults. Then you could
politely tell same-country callers "DX ONLY" or the equivalent.
Am I missing something here?
I do not speak Italian, so if someone who does could pose this question
to Roberto Soro, I2WIJ, the A.R.I. HF Contest Manager, perhaps a logical
reason could be forthcoming.
73, Bill W6WRT
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