[CQ-Contest] 1 Point for Intra-Country QSOs

[Steve Sacco NN4X]

While this might be fun on the higher bands, on the low bands, it would 
spell disaster.

I find it frustrating and sad during some of these 160M "DX contests" to 
be listening to a DX station on 160M on the same frequency as a U.S. 
station calling "CQ", with the U.S. station working stateside QSO's left 
and right, because it's the way to optimize their score.  Working 
bucketloads of 2-pointers is far (more than 5X ) easier than working a 
DX station in another continent for 10.  Yeah, I'm looking at you, 2016 
CQ World-Wide 160-Meter Contest.

There's not a lot of "world-wide" action going on during that one, at 
least from my perspective.

I turn that contest into a "Work DX only" game, as a reward to them for 
their endless CQing in the face of overwhelmingly louder U.S. stations, 
or calling U.S. stations which can't hear them.

73,
Steve
NN4X
EL98jh


 > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Jim George <n3bb at mindspring.com> wrote:
 >
 >> Agree. At my weekly "radio lunch" with K5NA, K5OT, W5JAW, and N5TW, we
 >> came up with the same thing. Everyone should be able to work his/her own
 >> country for one point. This would not only encourage more activity, but
 >> eliminate one current irritation of the CQWW where people in your 
country
 >> call you and you either ignore them or work them to clear the 
frequency for
 >> weaker DX. That would level out the current rules where people are 
in small
 >> countries and can work others at high rates (at more points). It should
 >> help activity in large countries like W, RA, VU, VE, VK, BY, etc.,  
as well
 >> as other counties that have significant ham radio populations.
 >>
 >> It would allow more action on bands that currently are of little use at
 >> many "dead times," and of course would have a major impact on M/M 
stations.
 >>
 >> Jim N3BB