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

[Raymond Benny]

With the present scoring system on the CQ 160 and other 160m contests, they
have become mostly just another domestic contest. I seldom compete in them
now days but I will look to work the DX stations. Just as the title of the
contest "World Wide" contest.

My 2 cents.

Ray,
N6VR

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Steve Sacco NN4X <nn4x at embarqmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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