[CQ-Contest] Contest Idea

[Ria Jairam]

It might be a good idea but I don't think it would attract DXers.

Personal perspective - DXing is an activity you pursue over a lifetime and
it largely fits in with your family and other time on a daily basis.

I think that most DXers who want to compete on a weekend doing DXing,
already take part in contests.

But I'm willing to give this a try, don't get me wrong!

73
Ria
N2RJ
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:03 PM Randy Thompson K5ZD <k5zd at charter.net> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> I spent a lot of time thinking about something like this when I was
> Director
> of the CQWW.  I know there are a lot of DXers out there who operate the
> contest just to chase countries.  Always wondered if there would be
> interest
> in a "DXer" competition where the winner would have the highest total
> countries + zones.  I balked on doing something because it seemed like the
> top mults always went to the serious guys who made the most QSOs.  Never
> found a good way to put the emphasis more on DX chasing.  Perhaps a
> combined
> total for SSB and CW would help.
>
> Didn't see much discussion on this, but wanted to add some support for the
> idea.
>
> Randy, K5ZD
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> > Mark
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 9:23 PM
> > To: CQ-Contest at contesting.com
> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] Contest Idea
> >
> > A few days ago there were some comments around contests and rules you
> > would like to see.  So here is one idea.
> >
> > At the moment CQ has a DX Marathon that runs for a year.  I have been
> > thinking what would happen if there was a version that was run over 48
> > hours?  As with the Marathon the object would be to work as many
> > countries and zones as you could but unlike the CQ WW (for example) the
> > number of QSOs you make is irrelevant.  You could utilise the categories
> > in the existing CQ WW contests e.g. single op single band or all band,
> > assisted, unassisted, multi op etc.  The exchange would be report and CQ
> > Zone (the latter largely so you know what zone the person is in so you
> > can claim it).  Ties would be broken by looking at who worked their last
> > country/zone the earliest.
> >
> > Unlike the CQ WW which is largely a rate contest, this would be a
> > strategy contest i.e. you would have to figure out how to maximise your
> > country and zone count.  When do you call CQ? Should you S&P instead?
> > Which way should I turn my beam and when?  Of course you may end up
> > working a number of stations who do not count because you have already
> > worked someone in that region (but who you should log regardless), but
> > that might be the price worth paying to work for example that rare zone
> > guy who you have heard and who does not like pile ups.
> >
> > This sort of format might also encourage non-contesters (i.e DXers) to
> > have a go and from there if they like it a few more may turn up in the
> > more regular type contests.  Any QSO would also count towards the annual
> > DX marathon so a lot of those guys would probably turn up looking for new
> > countries.
> >
> > Issues to be considered would be modes and bands.  As a competition it
> > should probably be restricted to the non-WARC bands although of course
> > the annual DX Marathon covers all bands.  Presumably any mode should
> > count i.e.
> > CW SSB and digital which would certainly spread the participants out and
> > the entry categories should reflect that.
> >
> > Log checking should in theory be easier as you only have to worry about
> > QSOs that were new countries and Zones for an entrant.
> >
> > To avoid a cluttered contest calendar perhaps it could be run each year
> > on a weekend which crosses two months.  This year for example would be
> > September 30 and October 1.  That would add an additional element of
> > changing the seasonal propagation so you may need to think of a new
> > strategy each time.
> >
> > If you want to get an idea of what an outcome may look like, have a look
> > at the CQ WW results database and sort a category by countries worked.
> > It is quite interesting.
> >
> > 73
> > Mark ZL3AB (flameproof jacket suitably donned)
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