You are advocating for new overlays. We already had the first major
overlay attempted this year with the "classic". If this pans out I
would hope that other overlay categories could be added.
Mike W0MU
On 12/1/2013 5:52 PM, XV4Y (Yan) wrote:
Hi fellow contesters,
While some are talking about unfairness between east and west coast, or is Cap
Verde a better place than Aruba for winning the CQ WW, some of us who live far
from populated places already know they currently have no chance to win a
contest.
I don't heard many ZS, ZL, YB, CE complaining because I think we all accepted that the
competition must be taken from inside our country or our zone. Even more, in my case, if
I carefully choose my category, I can be "Country winner" in any contest with
only 1 QSO. What do I do then? I try to beat my own results.
I'm a family-man, often (partly) working in week-ends. Should I ask for a revision of the
rules and a new "Family Man" overlay? No. I do my own contest and compare my
results on my operating time base.
That's one thing that lead me to create QScope, because in order to set my own
goals and check my own achievements, I needed a comprehensive yet simple log
analysis tool.
If CQ WW organizers don't want to change their rules (and I understand that), perhaps
should we create a "parallel contest".
I am not advocating for pirating CQ WW contest, just to make some kind of "B
league".
Basic exchanges would be the same, and anyone should be able to submit his log
for both competitions in parallel.
However, in our "unofficial" competition (with no other reward that pride) we
would have the freedom of experimenting new rules without fear of breaking past records.
And then, based on this unofficial experience, perhaps CQ WW or other contest
would one day change their rules.
Is anyone interested in such a project ?
Things I like to see in the experimental rules :
- Distance related scoring (calculated from the barycenter of each CQ zone, or
the most populated city in that zone) instead of continents
- Bonus points for the "rare entities" worked (+1 per QSO for each entity in
the 50 rarest from Clug Lob ranking by example)
- Bonus points for the "tough bands" +3 for 160m, +2 for 80m, +1 for 10m (or
like in All Asian DX)
- Ability to submit the log for several categories (SOSB 80m and SOAB by
example).
I'd like to make it clear that I don't want to create a competitor to CQ WW or
other contests.
I truly think Randy K5ZD and most of the other contest organizers are doing a
fantastic job.
However, I do think we cannot ask them to completely change the rules from one day to
another, and those would like to see new rules have to "do their homeworks"
first.
I think that there is nothing to lose in such a project., except for the
volunteers a little bit of time and money...
73,
Yan.
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Yannick DEVOS - XV4Y
http://xv4y.radioclub.asia/
http://varc.radioclub.asia/
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