[CQ-Contest] Announcing the “The Real Contesters International DX Contest”.

[Dale Putnam]

I love it... sounds like a whole lot more fun that looking at........
well, never mind. 

Have a great day, 
 
 
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Dale - WC7S in Wy
 
 

 
> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 13:25:48 +0200
> From: steefpa3s at gmail.com
> To: markzl3ab at gmail.com
> CC: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest]	Announcing the “The Real Contesters International DX Contest”.
> 
> And we call it the "Nova Zeelandia" contest :-)
> 
> 
> 2013/5/29 Mark <markzl3ab at gmail.com>
> 
> > The Real Contesters are pleased to announce a new worldwide CW and SSB DX
> > contest to be held on the nearest weekend to April 1 with many new
> > innovations which we are sure will not only excite the contesting community
> > but will bring a level of competition not seen before.
> >
> > We have noticed much angst and anguish about the length of contests.  As
> > such and although the contest will go for forty eight hours, you can create
> > your own operating period category to the nearest minute and enter that.
> >  Yes we understand this could mean 2880 potential categories and very few
> > entrants in each, but we acknowledge you should not have to spend forty
> > eight hours in the chair to win anything and its not like many people
> > operate the full forty eight hours anyway.  Furthermore you will not have
> > to choose an operating period equal to the total time you operated but
> > instead you can cherry pick out of your log the periods you did best in.
> >
> > Recognition is also well overdue for those who run more than 1500w in a
> > contest.   Therefore we have introduced several new power categories, 1.5KW
> > to 5KW, 5KW to 10KW and over 10KW. Yes we know that these power levels will
> > breach most national regulations but that does not appear to be a deterrent
> > to some so it is only fair these stations can compare themselves against
> > those running similar power, while leaving the old High Power category to
> > those running less than 1500W.
> >
> > We understand contesting is all about EU and NA and everybody else is
> > simply there to make up the numbers.  Therefore we are introducing a
> > scoring regime that will reflect this.  QSOs between stations in EU and NA
> > and between stations in each of those continents will be worth five points
> > each and QSOs by them with other continents and by stations in those
> > continents themselves will be worth one point.  After all we recognise that
> > it is too much of a hassle for many EU and NA stations to turn their beams
> > or learn about propagation to other parts of the world so any contest worth
> > its salt should be measured on the prowess of EU and NA in working stations
> > on their own continent and each other.  It should go without saying but
> > only EU and NA stations will count as multipliers.
> >
> > Speaking of NA we know that EU propagation is not uniform across North
> > America and it is simply not feasible for everyone to move to New England
> > as some seem to like to suggest.  Frankly however tough luck.  Contest
> > rules are not about fairness or giving a sucker an even break and contests
> > are far more interesting when only the chosen few can win.
> >
> > In a similar vein we will also make sure Hawaii stays in Oceania even
> > though it has about as much in common geographically and propagation wise
> > with the entities in CQ zones 29,30 and 32, as they do with entities in
> > zone 15.
> >
> > We also understand that band plans and band edges are solely there as a
> > guide only.  As such we are also going to double the points for QSOs where
> > one party is operating outside their applicable band plan or out of band.
> >  We are also going to award double points to people who transmit on
> > 14300kHz and on the PSK, JT65, RTTY and SSTV frequencies as well as for
> > those who simply transmit over the top of other amateurs having non-contest
> > qsos.  Contesters are well known for such abilities and it is only fair
> > these abilities are recognised.  In any case as everybody knows
> > non-contesters should all be on the WARC bands during contest weekends
> > anyway.
> >
> > We are also going to introduce Skype qsos.  With the proliferation of
> > electronic aids in identifying and working stations which is taking away
> > the need for anyone to improve their listening skills, we feel it is only a
> > small step to complete the QSO online.  Accordingly we will establish a
> > special group chat session using Skype where all stations can log in and
> > work each other there instead of having to go to the bother of working them
> > on the air.  We expect this to be extremely popular as all stations will be
> > presented on a plate with no pile ups to deal with and the issue of
> > propagation will be entirely removed from the equation.
> >
> > Finally we want to recognise the station with the worst SSB and CW signals
> > as voted on by their peers.  So if you hear a particularly bad signal then
> > assuming you can actually make out the callsign, put it in your soapbox
> > comments with the band, date and time you heard it when submitting your
> > score.  We will publish a leaderboard of callsigns submitted and the SSB
> > and CW stations with the most votes will each receive a special plaque
> > commemorating their quality of signal.
> > We feel sure this contest will be welcomed with open arms by the contesting
> > community and we look forward to receiving many entries.
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