Topband: New CQ160 contest Rules

[W7RY]

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Tippett 
  To: topband at contesting.com 
  Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 7:03 AM
  Subject: Re: Topband: New CQ160 contest Rules


  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
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  I disagree.
  Any contest that relies on grayline propagation with an early start time undoubtedly benefits the east. When it's late and dark on the west coast on Sunday evening, Asia is hard at work for their Monday morning.