[CQ-Contest] CQWW Committee Restructured

[Kip Edwards]

	"Those archaic, super-simple rules are what make most US DX contests
fun only for folks in the Atlantic basin"

	I've been entering the CQWW contests for 40 years from the U.S. West
Coast, the Caribbean, EU and the South Pacific and so far I've had "fun"
each time.  Maybe I would have more "fun" if you were to make a W6
transplanted to W7 a separate multiplier--but failing that, please leave the
CQWW alone.

	73 Kip W6SZN

-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Brown
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 3:38 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW Committee Restructured

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


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