[CQ-Contest] My thoughts about IARU and HQ stations

[Doug Smith W9WI]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 18:29, Tree wrote:
> 2. The IARU contest could be more marketing and be more proactive in 
> encouraging activity.  The ARRL doesn't really feel that they own this
...
> different things.  Maybe if the contest was advertised as well as some
> of the HQ stations, we can get more people on.  Of course, if the HQ
> stations would just encourage their people to work more stations, that
> would work too.

How about...  we offer an award to anyone who works some number (say,
ten?) of different HQ stations?  Working W1AW on ten band-modes wouldn't
do it, you'd have to work ten different societies.  This would
simultaneously offer an award most HF operators could achieve with
reasonable effort *and* encourage those who get on to work their
country's HQ station to also work other HQ operations.  

-- 
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN  EM66
http://www.w9wi.com