Bill,
I forwarded your question to Bob I2WIJ, the new ARI Contest Manager. Find
following his answer. He also told me that he will try to join the list
asap.
73 de Dan, I1-12387
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Hi Bill,
thanks to Dan I received your question and I am happy to answer.
Sorry that you don't speak my language, but luckily I can speak your
(though maybe not fluently or correctly).
Apart this, coming to your question, my first comment is that it
is a good question.
My second comment is that, unfortunately, time is too short now
for any possible change, supposed it is needed.
Rule are the same since the birth of this contest, but nevertheless
there is no reason why they cannot be updated and/or better shaped.
Certainly this rule has been introduced to encourage DX contacts,
as you noted, and it is the same as the CQWWDX contests
(even if ARI DX is quite another story, compared to the CQWW, hi).
I can promised I will keep this suggestion for the next year edition
among some other changes which have been requested/suggested
by others.
By the way, I hope you will enter the ARI DX Contest anyway!
Usually there is a good activity in RTTY during this contest.
I hope to meet you on the bands next weekend.
Best regards,
--
Bob, I2WIJ
A.R.I. HF Contest Manager
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From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com]On
Behalf Of Bill, W6WRT
Sent: lunedi 2 maggio 2011 2.16
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] Question about ARI contest rules
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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