[CQ-Contest] Entry Class -- CQWW Classic Overlay As It Should Be

[Tom Osborne]

Hi Syl

Thanks for the clarification.  Hard to believe I was wrong in my 
thinking :-)  73
Tom W7WHY



On 10/20/2014 4:29 AM, VE5ZX wrote:
>
> 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