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

[K9MA]

I'm all for keeping CQWW a DX contest by not allowing intra-country QSO's.

I would, however, like to see some sort of rule changes to make things 
more interesting, especially late in the contest, for those of us with 
modest stations inland of the US east coast.  Many of us know the 
drill:  Either one can't find a clear frequency to try to run, or 
running is just painfully slow, but every signal we can find in S&P mode 
is a dupe.   Meanwhile, how many operators are all tuning around and 
haven't worked each other?  What can we do to enable and encourage these 
operators to call CQ, so they can find each other?  I think some sort of 
modified Sprint QSY rule might work, but that will be extremely 
unpopular with the big guns.  Any other ideas?

I've found that the 24 hour category helps, as I'm a lot less likely to 
have those painfully slow rates near the end, but I wouldn't mind 
putting in a few more hours, if I could keep my rate above, say, 50/hr, 
so I'm not bored out of my head.

73,

Scott

On 7/21/2016 13:05, Raymond Benny wrote:
> 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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