[CQ-Contest] Contest Idea

[Tim Shoppa]

We already have "DX Marathon" but that's a year, not a weekend.

I would be opposed to a "contest" that only counted countries+zones. That
sounds like the old ARRL DX Contest Quota system, where the Quota, instead
of being 6 per country like it was in the past, would be just 1. It's just
a bad idea.

It also reminds me about the guys who do sweepstakes by working 83 sections
in 83 Q's. But they won't QSO with you if you aren't a section they still
need.

Randy, I've been a ham 40 years now but only recently gotten into
contesting. The amount of DX that's worked in CQ WW is just off the scale
unbelievable. I once looked into how quick the biggest M/M's work DXCC, and
I found an example back at solar max where I think K3LR had worked 100
DXCC's in the first 40 minutes of the contest. And of course you extoll the
examples a few years ago where 5BDXCC was worked in a single weekend by a
single operator. Now, that's what it's all about!

Tim N3QE


> On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 at 12:03, 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
>