[CQ-Contest] CQWW Committee Restructured

[Ward Silver]

 > As for CQWW, those of us here in Asia who have a perennial propagation
 > disadvantage have no chance of winning any of the big boy categories. 
Yet
 > if you look at score submissions of the last few years, you will 
observe an
 > upward trend. This is largely because ops are getting on air for fun, 
not
 > for winning. The serious efforts are largely focused on doing well in 
Asia
 > standings than World standings. All this with the current rules.

And there we have most of a very workable solution - compete regionally, 
report regionally, recognize regionally.  Thanks, Prasad.

Trying to come up with some kind of a complex numeric way of equalizing 
out propagation and geography is simply not workable. There are too many 
dependencies over which a point system has no control.  Nor can it 
respond to day-to-day propagation variations.

The CQ WW committee already has its hands overly-full dealing with the 
worldwide data set - and they do a great job with that!

My advice for those who care is to create regional competitions and 
reporting so that the best efforts from a particular region can be 
appropriately recognized and encouraged.  The scoring data and even the 
logs are public - there is no reason this can't be done.  How about the 
California Cup?  The East Asia Challenge? The Black Hole Bouquet?  
Regional reporting allows stations to compete against peers - which 
causes most of the perceived unhappiness.

73, Ward N0AX