[CQ-Contest] WPX Wonderings

Jeff Clarke ku8e at ku8e.com
Mon May 3 12:28:47 EDT 2021


Hopefully they won't mess with CQWW too. I have much respect N6TJ's 
comments because he's a Hall of Fame contester and knows what he's 
talking about.

Jeff KU8E

On 5/3/2021 10:43 AM, Prasad VU2PTT wrote:
> Jim,
>
> I used to look forward to WPX and even go to great lengths to acquire a
> special call at times - was not easy here.
>
> It’s meaningless putting out my prefix now that this is an entirely new
> contest - may be some day if it becomes an established one :)
>
> Some may call CQ DX instead of CQ WPX though ;-)
>
> 73,
>
> Prasad VU2PTT.
>
> On Mon, 3 May 2021 at 5:30 PM, Jim Neiger <n6tj at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Amen.  I missed the page where it was written that these couple
>> "contesters" had the authority to screw up a once great contest.
>>
>> Jim Neiger   N6TJ
>>
>>
>> On 4/30/2021 6:22 PM, Hans Brakob wrote:
>>> They’ve screwed up their magazine.  Now they’re working on their
>> contests.
>>> Utterly tone-deaf.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 73, de Hans, KØHB
>>> “Just a Boy and his Radio”™
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+kzerohb=gmail.com at contesting.com>
>> on behalf of wa1fcnbeaudoin <wa1fcn at charter.net>
>>> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2021 7:09:16 PM
>>> To: cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
>>> Subject: [CQ-Contest] WPX Wonderings
>>>
>>>
>>> GE All
>>>
>>>            So now that there is no distinction between assisted and
>> unassisted
>>>            in CQ WPX CW this month.  If  enter Single Band 40 using
>>> assistance is
>>>
>>>            the category called   Single Band 40 ? Then what happens to all
>>> those Single Band 40
>>>
>>>            Assisted records.  Or how about those guys who got their old
>>> Single Band 40 records
>>>
>>>            with NO assistance and now I am going to use assistance.
>>>
>>>            Do the records  just fade away like General MacArthur ?
>>>
>>>                        BoB WA1FCN
>>>
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