[CQ-Contest] Entry Class -- CQWW Classic Overlay As It Should Be
VE5ZX
ve5zx at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 20 07:29:32 EDT 2014
> I thought the whole idea 'Classic' class was to go back to 'Just a boy
> and his radio' type of contesting with no spotting, etc.
>
> Why have the classic and then just have the same rules as the regular
> contest, only for 24 hours? 73
> Tom W7WHY
Tom
Just a bit of background
The idea for the 24-hour category came from an article that Pete & Mike
wrote more than 10 years ago in 2003 on contesting.com titled "The
24-Hour DX Challenge".
http://www.contesting.com/articles/401
and a survey that was taken at the same time
http://www.contesting.com/survey/95
The ensuring discussions that took take over the intervening 10 years
also suggested and assumed that the 24-hour DX challenge would allow
spots as the focus was to encourage more participation in contests and
allow a participant to do the best they could from their QTH. The idea
was picked up by CQWW and consequently given the name of a Classic class
with an 24-hour overlay without spots allowed. The original intent as
proposed was never 'Just a boy and his radio'
BTW - Pete - I will join you in the "Classic-As-It-Should-Be category,
with spotting assistance" during the CQWW CW portion as I am going to
VE5RI to do a multi-multi in the SSB contest
Syl - VE5ZX
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