[CQ-Contest] CQWW Madness

[Jeff Stai]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Jeff Clarke <ku8e at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I'm curious if CQ has ever explored using
> distance based scoring like what's used in the Stew Perry contests? Figure
> points based on distance and keep the zones/counties as multipliers. Also
> make US states and VE call areas multipliers to even things out with EU.
> I'm sure there would be some way to do this. Maybe it's time to call N6TR
> since Tree has figured out how to do this.
>

Here's a world wide HF contest that has distance scoring, it was started
only 12 years ago, and has a great level of activity. It's coming up in
October, give it a try. The break rules are interesting too:

http://home.arcor.de/waldemar.kebsch/The_Makrothen_Contest/The_Makrothen_Contest.html

Perhaps this can serve as an example for a CW/SSB distance based HF contest.

73 jeff wk6i



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