[CQ-Contest] CQWW Committee Restructured

[Jim Brown]

On Mon,7/18/2016 3:13 PM, Randy Thompson K5ZD wrote:
> Other than moving some tectonic plates, what do you suggest would make CQ WW
> more interesting for those not bordering the Atlantic Ocean?
>
> Not useful to complain without offering a suggestion.

MANY times I have noted the need for updating scoring rules to the 
modern age, and I have made some suggestions. All were promptly rejected 
as "changing the nature of the contest." The scoring rules date to the 
time when we all had to do it by adding and multiplying numbers with 
paper and pencil. Those archaic, super-simple rules are what make most 
US DX contests fun only for folks in the Atlantic basin, where the vast 
majority of multipliers are. And keeping them the same so that 50 year 
old records can be compared with modern scores is really silly -- in 
those old days, we had no automation at all, logged on paper with paper 
dupe sheets. Even comparing today with ten years ago is silly, and for 
the same reasons.

To me, the CQWW contests are the dumbest of all -- except for a few 
countries like UA, VE, and K, all you have to copy is the call, because 
the whole country is in the same zone so the computer fills in the zone 
for you.

73, Jim K9YC