[CQ-Contest] NAQP CW - Rules Changes Needed

[jimk8mr at aol.com]

Going to high power competition, you'll still be at a disadvantage with other high power stations with big antennas. Your signal will stand out better compared with guys who don't have or don't use amplifiers.

A different issue with the M/2 category is the ten minute rule. That leaves out M/2 stations as candidates for being moved to other bands, i.e. for a needed multiplier on a little used band (i.e. 10 Meters). On a good day I might be able to work W2FU on 10 meter groundwave, but there is no incentive for them to take the time and effort to try. Note - the rules do allow the M/2 station to make such QSOs; they just won't count, but will not lead to disqualification:


iii) Starting when the first QSO on a band is logged, a transmitted signal cannot transmit on a different band until 10 full minutes have passed. Any QSOs made on a different band before 10 minutes have passed will not count for scoring. The other station will receive full credit for the QSO.


There is another item in the rules that I don't understand:

vii)  Multioperator entries with only one operator may be reclassified to single operator with 
assistance for scoring purposes.

How does this make sense if there is no such category?


73  -  Jim   K8MR





-----Original Message-----
From: ku8e <ku8e at ku8e.com>
To: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr at gmail.com>; reflector cq-contest <CQ-Contest at Contesting.COM>
Sent: Sun, Aug 8, 2021 3:05 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] NAQP CW - Rules Changes Needed

 NAQP is a low power contest so it supposedly levels the playing field? So I guess if you are using a dipole that's equal to using a beam on the tower? Personally I don't think running an amplifier makes a difference when going against the higher tier well equipped stations running low power. I've run my amplifier in NAQP in the past ( I didn't submit my score) and while I do a little better than if I ran low power it's still not even close to to top LP scores. The antennas you use is the equalizer not how much power you're running. So the concept of running low power to equal things is flawed.The rules for NAQP have been the same forever. When the rules were written years ago there weren't online packet clusters, skimmers or many people doing SO2R. Why not update them with the times?  It would be cool to have a domestic only contest that you can work everyone on all the bands and do it high power. Also have assisted and low power categories like every other contest.JeffSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr at gmail.com> Date: 8/8/21  11:18 AM  (GMT-05:00) To: reflector cq-contest <CQ-Contest at Contesting.COM> Subject: [CQ-Contest] NAQP CW - Rules Changes Needed Now that this running is behind us, the organizers need to seriously consider a change in the rules.It is unnecessary, and downright punitive, to push assisted single ops into Multi-2, instead of creating a separate single op assisted category. Many of us, with limited antennas (see HOAs) can only S&P. Without assistance, operating becomes a deadly boring sequence of tune, copy, type the call in, be told it's a dupe, and repeat.The rule now consigns assisted ops to submergence in the multi-op category, when it would be so simple to create a single-op assisted category. It's certainly not in the interest of expanding NAQP participation to continue punishing assisted ops this way.  Time to act!-- 73, Pete N4ZRCheck out the new Reverse Beacon Networkweb server at <http://beta.reversebeacon.net>.For spots, please use your favorite"retail" DX cluster._______________________________________________