Topband: Re:Topband 160 meter contests - what do you want?

[Brian Mattson]

Listening to the CQ WW 160 CW Contest from the midwestern US, there seemed to be two distinct contests going on. One was a Worked-All-States USA QSO Party & the other was a very well hidden WW DX Contest. While I do not wish to demean either effort, just imagine if these two were separated.

The WAS QSO Party would be just that & held separately.

The DX Contest would give NO points for working one's OWN country! (It's not DX by definition). Of course there would be great inequities in the DX Contest; there always is. A Caribbean station would smoke most US stations, but hefty multipliers could be used for separate DX entities worked to equalize things out a bit.  

Flame on!

73 & Best Regards,  Brian  K8BHZ