[CQ-Contest] You gotta let me know, should M/M Distributed stay or go.

[Jeff Clarke]

I just don't get why this M/M Distributed category is taking up so much 
bandwidth on the reflector. There were only about 11 entries posted on 
3830. Not exactly a game changer that effected the majority of 
contesters.  Resolving the removal of the unassisted category in WPX and 
fixing the rules to everyone's satisfaction is much more important.

Jeff

On 6/3/2021 08:45 PM, AB1J via CQ-Contest wrote:
> This is a nice idea but I think teams should be allowed to either use a single call or individual calls.  One or the other in any given contest.
>
> And I fail to see how the M/M Distributed category can have a noticeable effect on the number of stations that can be worked.  The sky is not falling.
>
> Beyond that, I'd like to see the old CQ-WW free-style category reinstated.  I can't remember what it was called.  It was terminated before it had a chance to get established. And it might have been a bit ahead of its time.  Bring it back.
>
> Of course, people could establish their own rules and teams and publish their own results, like the Unassisted WPX folks are doing.  Maybe that will serve as a useful precedent.   I'm surprised third parties don't form their own OVERLAYs for the major contests.  Something interesting to fight the sclerosis.
>
> In any case, we need new ideas and new blood.
>
> 73,
> Ken, AB1J
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Haverty <k3fiv at arrl.net>
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Sent: Thu, Jun 3, 2021 10:28 pm
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] You gotta let me know, should M/M Distributed stay or go.
>
> Perhaps it's worth another try at offering a solution....this battle has
> become the 100 Years War.
>
> Instead of "Multi" classifications, consider treating entries involving
> more than one operator as a "Team".
>
> In a Team entrant, each operator signs his or her own callsign for all
> Qs.  The Team score is computed by adding up all the scores of the
> members of the Team.  Basically use the same rules as before, but
> require each operator to use his or her personal callsign as a member of
> the Team.
>
> This would likely make more Qs available to other contesters.  More
> callsigns on the air.  It would also probably be more fun and
> challenging for the Team operators.  Each of them gets to collect their
> own mults et al, and not be as likely to experience endless CQing as the
> contest progresses and the Team "station" has been worked by most everybody.
>
> So M/M Distributed would simply be a Distributed Team entrant.  Teams
> could use their creativity to organize and use Teamwork.  Perhaps they
> coordinate to help other members score.  And there would be more
> callsigns available for others to work.
>
> 73 de Jack K3FIV
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