[CQ-Contest] Doubts on the WPX Contest

[Gina and Brian Maves]

Mauri,

You said:
"... seemed to me the Y2K ssb WPX has been just a little more than a
10-15-20 contest.... 1) wouldn't it be more interesting to introduce
something that could allow anything like a real strategy be applied ?"

I respectfully beg to differ with your conclusion.

You formulate a strategy based on the rules and knowledge of the
contest--not design a contest that somehow fits your idea of what
constitutes strategy.  Although many here seem increasingly anxious to do
just that.

You're exactly right.  WPX is a contest that you can win using a strategy
that never takes you below 14Mhz.  I remember noticing it for the first
time10 years ago, give or take a couple, when KM9P took the U.S. #1 SO
position only using 10-20.  My reaction was "cool strategy," and pretty
effective I might add.   If you have a station capable of the rates required
for this to work as a strategy, why waste any of your 36 hours on a band
that can't produce rate--even if the Q's are double points.  Mind you, I
haven't been stateside for 6 years, but as I remember, a large percentage of
low band Qs there are stateside to stateside, thus zero points.  Sure, It
may hurt your prefix total, but hey, that should be part of the trade-offs
you weigh when formulating this strategy.

Bottom line Mauri, I ask you to rethink your position.  In another 5 years,
anyone who doesn't radiate below 14Mhz won't come close to the top 10
box--unless of course they change their strategy.

vr,
Brian
K9QQ/WH7Z



>
> Adding to the above a multiplier system that's not band related either
> mostly proportioned to QSO number than anything else I'm asking myself:
>
> 1) wouldn't it be more interesting to introduce something that could allow
> anything like a real strategy be applied ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Maurizio Panicara" <i4jmy at iol.it>
To: "CQ Contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 6:57 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Doubts on the WPX Contest


>
> Hi pile up rates are nice, likewise that anything works as an antenna when
> the solar flux is so high, but....
>
> With high flux numbers, hi rates, high bands opened 24h x day and people
> cought by the 10m appeal, the double points on low bands seemed to me the
> Y2K ssb WPX has been just a little more than a 10-15-20 contest.
>
> Adding to the above a multiplier system that's not band related either
> mostly proportioned to QSO number than anything else I'm asking myself:
>
> 1) wouldn't it be more interesting to introduce something that could allow
> anything like a real strategy be applied ?
> 2) will ever I see the IJ4R (wpx 1991, ssb M/S EU record) award from N8BJQ
?
>
> 73,
> Mauri I4JMY
>
>
>
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