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Re: [CQ-Contest] Improving the Fabulous CQ 160 Contest

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Improving the Fabulous CQ 160 Contest
From: "K1TTT" <K1TTT@ARRL.NET>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:01:40 +0000
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The cq 160m contest is not the stew perry contest... keep them separate and
unique.


David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor A. Kean, Jr. [mailto:vkean@k1lt.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 02:52
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Improving the Fabulous CQ 160 Contest
> 
> For the 2010 edition of CQ 160 contest, I propose the following
> changes as followons to the 2009 changes:
> 
> 1.  Make the exchange 59(9) grid where "grid" is 4 character
> Maidenhead grid square, a-la the Stew Perry test.
> 
> 2.  Make the QSO point scoring proportional to distance.  You could
> take the Stew Perry scheme and scale it so that the longest possible
> QSO is 10 (or maybe 12) points.
> 
> 3.  Keep multipliers to encourage DXpeditions and pile-ups.
> 
> Let the flaming begin.
> 
> Victor, K1LT
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