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Re: [CQ-Contest] DX Contest scoring schemes

To: "sawyered@earthlink.net" <sawyered@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] DX Contest scoring schemes
From: <ve4xt@mymts.net>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 11:45:57 -0700
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Just in case anyone isn't clear, this was intended to be in full sarcastica 
font. 

Kelly

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 28, 2015, at 8:19, "Ed Sawyer" <sawyered@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Not really Kelly.  
> 
> We have already spent the 2 years having the circular arguments.  Time for
> someone who its important to - to step up and lead.
> 
> If it takes an email campaign to generate interest, then the 2 years of
> dialog have been bogus.  There should be immediate and great interest in
> such a contest.
> 
> There is no need for this contest to duplicate the CQWW approach.  IARU and
> ARRL DX do quite fine with a fraction of the oversight that CQWW is doing.
> 
> There is no reason to tie the contest to a published and printed magazine.
> It could easily be epublished.  Heck even CQWW was probably one more delayed
> issue away from taking that step due to CQ Mags problems.  That being said,
> NCJ might be interested.  Seeing how many pages they devote to line scores
> of some pretty thin participation contests, this could be a big win for NCJ.
> 
> So either take the lead boys or stop complaining.
> 
> Ed  N1UR
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly Taylor [mailto:ve4xt@mymts.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 10:05 AM
> To: sawyered@earthlink.net; George via CQ-Contest
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] DX Contest scoring schemes
> 
> Ed,
> 
> You're forgetting a few things, so just to help fill out the checklist:
> 
> 1. Pick a contest date
> 2. Start a website.
> 3. Spend a year or two chasing circular arguments about what the rules
> should be, 4. Begin an email campaign to generate interest 5. Organize a
> slate of volunteers with unlimited travel budgets to check logs, visit
> stations, cross-reference logs with SDR recordings, write the contest
> results article, tabulate the Top 10 and multiple regional boxes, 6. Line up
> sponsors to pay for plaques and for buying space in a magazine to publish
> the results (since you probably don't own a magazine).
> 7. Put on your flame-proof underwear for the inevitible whinging about how
> badly you screwed up the rules.
> 
> I think that covers it, yes?
> 
> 73, kelly
> ve4xt
> 
>> On 5/28/15 8:24 AM, "Ed Sawyer" <sawyered@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Guys - Can we finish with this annually recurring topic and do 
>> something about it?  Find a weekend in April or September, establish 
>> your dream contest rules, tell everyone to be there, set up a website, 
>> and see how it goes for a couple years.  It should be amazingly 
>> popular with contesters west of the Mississippi in the US, all of 
>> Oceana, Deep Asia, and South America.  The rest of US and EU I am sure 
>> will join in as usual.  Count me in as well.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> If you insist on a contest that is existing be changed to try it, I 
>> would suggest the major contest with the absolute worst growth rate 
>> and demographics currently operating, ARRL Sweepstakes.  Or, if it 
>> needs to be a DX contest, probably IARU RadioSport is the hind dog in the
> pack fro growth.
>> All other majors are growing quite nicely as is.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 73
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Ed  N1UR
>> 
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