Hi Mark,
I spent a lot of time thinking about something like this when I was Director
of the CQWW. I know there are a lot of DXers out there who operate the
contest just to chase countries. Always wondered if there would be interest
in a "DXer" competition where the winner would have the highest total
countries + zones. I balked on doing something because it seemed like the
top mults always went to the serious guys who made the most QSOs. Never
found a good way to put the emphasis more on DX chasing. Perhaps a combined
total for SSB and CW would help.
Didn't see much discussion on this, but wanted to add some support for the
idea.
Randy, K5ZD
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> Mark
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> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Contest Idea
>
> A few days ago there were some comments around contests and rules you
> would like to see. So here is one idea.
>
> At the moment CQ has a DX Marathon that runs for a year. I have been
> thinking what would happen if there was a version that was run over 48
> hours? As with the Marathon the object would be to work as many
> countries and zones as you could but unlike the CQ WW (for example) the
> number of QSOs you make is irrelevant. You could utilise the categories
> in the existing CQ WW contests e.g. single op single band or all band,
> assisted, unassisted, multi op etc. The exchange would be report and CQ
> Zone (the latter largely so you know what zone the person is in so you
> can claim it). Ties would be broken by looking at who worked their last
> country/zone the earliest.
>
> Unlike the CQ WW which is largely a rate contest, this would be a
> strategy contest i.e. you would have to figure out how to maximise your
> country and zone count. When do you call CQ? Should you S&P instead?
> Which way should I turn my beam and when? Of course you may end up
> working a number of stations who do not count because you have already
> worked someone in that region (but who you should log regardless), but
> that might be the price worth paying to work for example that rare zone
> guy who you have heard and who does not like pile ups.
>
> This sort of format might also encourage non-contesters (i.e DXers) to
> have a go and from there if they like it a few more may turn up in the
> more regular type contests. Any QSO would also count towards the annual
> DX marathon so a lot of those guys would probably turn up looking for new
> countries.
>
> Issues to be considered would be modes and bands. As a competition it
> should probably be restricted to the non-WARC bands although of course
> the annual DX Marathon covers all bands. Presumably any mode should
> count i.e.
> CW SSB and digital which would certainly spread the participants out and
> the entry categories should reflect that.
>
> Log checking should in theory be easier as you only have to worry about
> QSOs that were new countries and Zones for an entrant.
>
> To avoid a cluttered contest calendar perhaps it could be run each year
> on a weekend which crosses two months. This year for example would be
> September 30 and October 1. That would add an additional element of
> changing the seasonal propagation so you may need to think of a new
> strategy each time.
>
> If you want to get an idea of what an outcome may look like, have a look
> at the CQ WW results database and sort a category by countries worked.
> It is quite interesting.
>
> 73
> Mark ZL3AB (flameproof jacket suitably donned)
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