[CQ-Contest] Improving the Fabulous CQ 160 Contest

[Julius Fazekas]

I agree! Variety is the spice of life. 

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

Tennessee Contest Group
TnQP http://www.tnqp.org/

Elecraft K2/100 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366


--- On Wed, 1/7/09, K1TTT <K1TTT at ARRL.NET> wrote:

> From: K1TTT <K1TTT at ARRL.NET>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Improving the Fabulous CQ 160 Contest
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 5:01 PM
> The cq 160m contest is not the stew perry contest... keep
> them separate and
> unique.
> 
> 
> David Robbins K1TTT
> e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
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>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Victor A. Kean, Jr. [mailto:vkean at k1lt.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 02:52
> > To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] Improving the Fabulous CQ 160
> Contest
> > 
> > For the 2010 edition of CQ 160 contest, I propose the
> following
> > changes as followons to the 2009 changes:
> > 
> > 1.  Make the exchange 59(9) grid where
> "grid" is 4 character
> > Maidenhead grid square, a-la the Stew Perry test.
> > 
> > 2.  Make the QSO point scoring proportional to
> distance.  You could
> > take the Stew Perry scheme and scale it so that the
> longest possible
> > QSO is 10 (or maybe 12) points.
> > 
> > 3.  Keep multipliers to encourage DXpeditions and
> pile-ups.
> > 
> > Let the flaming begin.
> > 
> > Victor, K1LT
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