[UK-CONTEST] CQ WPX CW2012.

[Roger Western]

Brian,
You are out-of-date, old chap! CQ Mag announced last month that their whole 
programme of rules & results for all CQ Mag contests are being brought 
forward, from 2013. With so many CQ contests their publication schedule is 
really complicated.

Also, K5ZD is the new CQWW Director replacing K3EST.
73 de Roger/G3SXW.


-----Original Message----- 
From: brian coyne
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 10:37 AM
To: UK Contest
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] CQ WPX CW2012.

Log checking reports have now been sent out to all entrants.

I wasn't too happy with my own score reduction of 6.1% although seeing that 
the median reduction is more than 9%  gives me a little comfort.

When I analise my log I find the majority of errors are due to typo's or 
alterations made mainly during the contact with numbers/ letters in the 
wrong order. Not so many busted calls but too many busted serials and I know 
I have a problem during S&P when I call the next stn having failed to 'enter 
the last one when the new call covers the s/n of the last contact. I must 
try to configure some 'F' keys for S&P to avoid this. What do others do?

I see that we have to wait a further 6 months for publication of the 
results, really unacceptable in this day and age. Whilst I reckon that Randy 
does a brilliant job with wpx, in so many ways better than the ww committee, 
he is lagging in this respect in not being able to get CQ Mag to bring 
forward the publishing date.

73  Brian  5B4AIZ.

Below are Randy's comments.

We did a deeper level of log checking this year than ever before. There were
22,107 QSOs with unique callsigns among the 2,835,110 QSOs.  83.8% of those
unique QSOs were determined to be incorrect.  The median score reduction was
9.4%.  WPX is usually a little higher than other contests since many busted
calls create prefix multipliers.



Thanks to everyone who participated in WPX CW 2012.  The official results
will appear in the March 2013 issue of CQ Magazine and on the CQ WPX Contest
web site www.cqwpx.com.
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