[CQ-Contest] CQWW Committee Restructured

[Helmut Mueller]

Guys ....

As always, there are about 10+ people moaning about the rules versus
approximately 10.000 people involved (9000 logs) per LEG in one of the biggest
contest per year. So the committee is doing it really wrong.
 
This does not include around 50.000 casual operators who JUST want to use it for
DX hunting and nothing else. So let’s get rid of these exotic stations! More
points for working your 200th VE station.  Why is the committee not getting it? 

The contest is on for 68 Years with increasing number of logs and exploding
number of QSOs made. Blame the committee.

Why don’t you actively volunteer to work at the committee? Easier to blame than
being part of …..

There are 100+ contests each year with different scoring schemes and you will
not find a single contest where you cannot find “someone” who feels overreached.


Even with you 10+ guys complaining here, you will not be able to come up with a
complete set of contest rules that pleases everybody. Following silently the
same discussions over years and years, there are as many different “one and only
solutions” as there are complaints.      

If you don’t like the rules, don’t play the game. 

By the way, I want to win it too!!! With my flagpole antenna and 100w sitting in
the middle of the town. What can you do for me? DF7ZS being worth 100 mults! By
the way – because of family reasons I can only spend 10+ hours on the weekend!
You have to find a rule or category for me too! I blame the committee that I
have not won it from home yet! 

Again, there are different competitions, WAEDC, IOTA, WPX, ARRL, RRDX, WAG,
IARU, Sweepsteakes, VHF and many many more. If none of them works for you, just
establish your own contest with equal rules for everyone from W1 to W6, from VE1
to ZL6. 

There is one simple rule in hamradio: No matter what you do and how successful
you are, someone else knows it better!

73 keep pounding QSOs!

Helmut

www.df7zs.de 


> VE2TZT <ve2tzt at arrl.net> hat am 19. Juli 2016 um 21:00 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> 
> On 19/07/2016 13:48, Helmut Mueller wrote:
> > You want to win it sitting in your arm chair at home?
> yes !!!!!!!
> 
> and I work hard to have my home station efficient while staying reasonable.
> > You are wondering why DX will not be present anymore in a DX contest?
> As it is already the case my proposition cannot be the reason of 
> decreasing DX, then why giving advantage to a handful a guys against all 
> others ?
> 
> Creating 70 more multipliers we do not need anymore those few exotic 
> multipliers just having to pay to win
> 
> And by far I would prefer to have bigger runs than those 10 or 15 exotic 
> multipliers in my log.
> 
> Gilles VA2EW
> > You are wondering why CN, D4, CT3, P4 e.t.c. stops spending $$$$$$$$$ if you
> > can win it from home?
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > Why not try IOTA, WAEDC or any other of the 100+ contests with different
> > rules?
> >
> > DX contest should stay a DX contest where exotic places matter.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Helmut
> >
> >   
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] Im Auftrag von
> > VE2TZT
> > Gesendet: Tuesday, 19 July, 2016 06:37 PM
> > An: cq-contest at contesting.com
> > Betreff: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW Committee Restructured
> >
> > -1 point per contact for everybody whatever the country, the continent or
> > the zone. (no more indecent continental border advantage as EA8, CN or even
> > some extreme East Coast)
> >
> > -The US states, the Canadian provinces and the Japanese call area become
> > multipliers (then the multiplier potential in NA should be about the same as
> > in EU)
> >
> > Globally with that rules the East coast beams should turn 180 degrees more
> > often and perhaps that should give more motivation to have some more traffic
> > in NA during the second half of the night.
> >
> > Gilles VA2EW
> >
> >
> > On 18/07/2016 18:13, 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.
> >>
> >> Randy, K5ZD
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf
> >>> Of Jim Brown
> >>> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 4:09 PM
> >>> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> >>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW Committee Restructured
> >>>
> >>> On Sat,7/16/2016 4:21 PM, Barry wrote:
> >>>> Was a requirement for consideration having grown up in NJ? :-)
> >>> qrz.com shows that all LIVE in the golden eastern half of NA. So VERY
> >>> unlikely that anything will happen to make these contests interesting
> >>> for stations contesting outside the Atlantic basin.
> >>>
> >>> 73, Jim K9YC
> >>>
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