[CQ-Contest] Encouraging contest participation

[Julius Fazekas]

I do remember this from the ARRL DX. It was a major reason, back in the day, for me playing in it. I did, for some reason, prefer CQ WW DX back then, but can't recall why (maybe more "rare" DX showed up in it).

I think, in this digital age, Pete is right and it makes a lot of sense to go this route...

73,
Julius

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html

Tennessee QSO Party: Sunday, 6 Sept 2009
http://www.tnqp.org/

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


--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Pete Smith <n4zr at contesting.com> wrote:

> From: Pete Smith <n4zr at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Encouraging contest participation
> To: CQ-Contest at contesting.com
> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 7:16 AM
> Dave's right about the potential
> value of encouraging more casual 
> participants.  Just as happened to me 54 years ago,
> participation for 
> purposes other than winning a certificate will result in
> some 
> percentage catching the bug and becoming competitors.
> 
> One thing that would be a big boost to participation by 
> non-contesters would be to give award credit for contest
> QSOs that 
> have been verified (cross-checked) by the log
> checkers.  Surely, it 
> would be a fairly trivial addition to the log-checking
> software to 
> have it generate a separate list of the verified QSOs in
> some pretty 
> universal format, which the awards folks could use to grant
> credit 
> toward DXCC, WAS, WPX, WAZ or whatever.  Talk about
> quick, low-cost 
> gratification, obtainable nowhere else but through
> participation in contests!
> 
> I can hear the screams now about diluting the "integrity"
> of the 
> awards, but cheating scenarios involving collusion among
> participants 
> in a contest to fabricate QSOs are pretty far fetched, and
> should be 
> pretty easy to detect.  I suppose people might also
> point to the loss 
> of revenue by ARRL, particularly for DXCC, but I truly
> wonder if the 
> awards program is a profit center for them, or more a
> question of 
> loss mitigation.
> 
> 73, Pete N4ZR 
> 
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