I see two bad, or at least less than desirable features:
1. The same country/same zone limit is way too loose. The guy at the station
in Maine messages the station in Miami "I can't raise this BY mult here on 15.
Can you QSY to work him?" Something along the lines of 150 mile radius would
be better.
2. Contests are better served by having lots of different stations to work. If
multiple stations show up in the contest as one station, that's fewer people
for everybody else to work.
I don't see "lesser stations" having much fun collaborating when the
competition or benchmark is the group that sucks up all the good
rent-a-stations for the weekend.
73 - Jim K8MR
-----Original Message-----
From: David Gilbert <ab7echo@gmail.com>
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Sent: Mon, Nov 16, 2020 3:14 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Rule Changes for the CQ WW WPX SSB and CW Contests in
2021
It's a new M/M category, not a replacement for the existing M/M
category. It's an "addition", not a "change". What causes that to be
such a bad idea? Maybe it is, but I'm having a difficult time seeing
it. If anything it makes an interesting possibility for lesser stations
to collaborate, and I could imagine that it opens up some interesting
strategy considerations.
Dave AB7E
"The 2021 CQ WW WPX RTTY, SSB and CW contests will include a new
Multi-Transmitter Distributed category. Stations operating in this category
may have a maximum of six transmitted signals, one per band at any one time,
from stations in different locations. All equipment, including
remotely-controlled equipment, must be located in same DXCC entity and CQ
Zone. Six bands may be activated simultaneously. This is a new,
stand-alone category. It is not intended to replace, or compete with, other
multi-operator categories."
On 11/16/2020 11:42 AM, K8MR via CQ-Contest wrote:
> The more troubling change to me is the essentially no-limits distributed
> multiops. Competitive Multi-op, especially multi-multi, over the years has
> been a category for conspicuous consumption station builders, combined with
> the chance for folks to spend a weekend hanging out with other serious
> contesters. With COVID I understand a place for distributing some stations
> over a relatively small geographical area. And likewise having remote
> operators operating a station with the equipment and antennas in one place.
> But having a multi with transmitters and receivers in Maine and in Miami, and
> anywhere in between, switching back and forth between bands to take advantage
> of propagation advantages from a particular location, is crazy. While this
> change is presently just for WPX, if it is also a test run for CQWW, it's a
> very bad idea.
> While over the years I've done a lot of multi-ops from K8AZ, mostly in the
> ARRL and CQWW DX tests, operating as part of a "multi" while sitting at my
> own station leaves me cold. And the contests benefit from having more calls
> available to work, rather than putting in single call "multi" efforts tying
> up lot of stations and people.
>
> 73 - Jim K8MR
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