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

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Of course it is, in the same way that WPX allows single ops only to 
choose 30 hours.TheCQWW rulemakers have gone them one better, and even 
tried to make sure that people won't operate more and then cherry-pick 
the best,by specifying that if the log shows more than 24 hours, only 
the first 24 count.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 10/20/2014 12:23 PM, RT Clay wrote:
> Classic is not a 24-hour category. To be competitive you still need the whole 48 hour contest period free to pick from the best times to operate.
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> Tor
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> On Monday, October 20, 2014 11:04 AM, Tom Osborne <w7why at frontier.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Syl
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>> Thanks for the clarification.  Hard to believe I was wrong in my
>> thinking :-)  73
>> Tom W7WHY
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>> On 10/20/2014 4:29 AM, VE5ZX wrote:
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>>> Tom
>>>
>>> Just a bit of background
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>>> 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".
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>>> http://www.contesting.com/articles/401
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>>> and a survey that was taken at the same time
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>>> http://www.contesting.com/survey/95
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>>> 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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