[CQ-Contest] What Happened on 10 Meters?

[Sean Cavanaugh]

Hi Maarten,

What you have overlooked is that states are not multipliers in the CQWW 
contest, only zones and countries. So the continental US has 4 mults: 
the US country mult, zone 3, zone 4 and zone 5.

73,
Sean - VA5LF

On 09-11-05 4:07 AM, PD2R wrote:
> Unless my English is letting me down, I don't think your statements are
> correct.
> This is what a found in the CQ WW SSB contest rules of 2009:
>
> VI. POINTS:
> 1. Contacts between stations on different
> continents are worth three (3)
> points.
> 2. Contacts between stations on the
> same continent but different countries,
> one (1) point. Exception: For North
> American stations only, contacts between
> stations within the North American
> boundaries count two (2) points.3. Contacts between stations in the
> same country are permitted for zone or
> country multiplier credit but have zero
> (0) point value.
>
> Europe has a little over 50 countries and the US has (AFAIK) 50 states so
> there's not much difference there.
>
> One should know the rules before one starts the contest...:rules: ;-)
>
> By the way, the US is 3.5 million square miles, while Europe is 3.9 million
> square miles. :-p
>
> 73, Maarten van Rossum
> PD2R
>
> Member of the PI4DX contest group
>