[CQ-Contest] plaque sponsorship

[Christian Schneider]

As honest sponsorship for a plaque is: How many stations not already 
being regulars in a contest will enter for the first time or extend 
their operation time significantly to compete for this plaque? This is 
NOT to advocate easy wins or a myriad of categories. But I'm sceptic 
that plaques will generate bigger general activity below the usual 
plaque suspects - and am afraid that we can only continue on the 
somewhat stony path of incentives for the not so big gun group. They 
need not necessarily be only material. Something like livescores can 
ignite competition between operators on every hardware level, like 
runners sprinting between rank 83 and 84 in an everyone cross country race.
73 Chris DL8MBS


Am 25.07.2016 um 07:17 schrieb Larry via CQ-Contest:
> yesterday i wrote about an idea to promote JA activity and perhaps even the playing field between the east and west coast USA in the CQ WW.
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> i have received the first sponsor pledge. it is interesting to note that it is from a JA ham. he writes, in part:
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> "...... This may be impure from the sportsmanship standpoint of view, but as some of
> you may be aware of, the number of amateur radio station in JA is less than
> one third of what was about 20 years ago. I don't think this situation will be
> improved, but I still want more JAs to be in CQWW. Many of hams in JA use tiny
> system and it's difficult for them to work DX even for 6000 points, but I
> expect even such JAs also will be in CQWW and enjoy."
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> i hope that other japan stations or clubs would also sponsor a plaque. they are only $55. i would also hope that some west coast stations or clubs will do the same.