[CQ-Contest] DX Sprint is a good idea

[Jim Smith]

Hi Sean,

The only Sprints I've been in are the NCJ sponsored ones.  Perhaps there 
are many other Sprints with different rules.  If so, my following 
comments may be totally out to lunch.

It is my understanding that what makes a contest a Sprint is the QSY 
after CQ rule, not the fact that the contest is of short duration.  
Would it be your intention to incorporate the QSY rule?

If not, may I respectfully suggest that you not muddy the waters by 
calling it a Sprint?

Obviously, if these proposed new contests are to be run as subsets of 
larger contests there is no way that one could incorporate the QSY rule.

It is fun, though, to contemplate what the CQ WWW SSB would sound like 
with the Sprint QSY rule in place.  It would, in one master stroke, 
solve the self-spotting problem :-D

Maybe NCJ could copyright the term "Sprint" and only permit others to 
use it in their contest names if they agree to incorporate the QSY 
rule.  Then again, maybe nobody cares.

73 de JIm Smith   VE7FO

k8khz wrote:

>I have a club that  would start DX sprints CW, Digi, and Phone. If this is a
>well liked plan then I would like to start these this next year. 12 Hour DX
>Sprints.
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>Sean K8KHZ
>Contest Rules Chairman
>Michigan DX Association
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