Topband: New CQ160 contest Rules

[Bill Tippett]

W7RH:

>The 2nd major change is the DX exchange of RST and Zone for 2009 as compared
to RST and Country in previous contests. You better check your logging
programs and be prepared to ask for reports over and over again.

Here's yet another survey which resulted in the recent exchange
modification by Andy N2NT:

http://www.contesting.com/survey/64

I feel this is an improvement because of the ambiguity in stations
sending either country abbreviations or prefixes (e.g. ER for European
Russia or ER for Moldova).  Even within the same country some stations
sent different abbreviations (e.g. 9A or CRO, S5 or SI, etc).  This
change results in an unambiguous exchange that everyone understands
and also supports a major award program by the sponsor (WAZ by CQ
Magazine).

Hopefully most major logging programs will make the conversion to WAZ
zone for DX stations before the next CQ 160 at the end of January.

73,  Bill  W4ZV