[CQ-Contest] DX Sprint is a good idea

[Jim Smith]

Private responses have revealed that my comments were, indeed, totally 
out to lunch.

73 de Jim Smith   VE7FO

Jim Smith wrote:

> 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
>
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