Reducing DXCC or WAZ to only mixed awards (no band or mode
distinctions) might have an effect.
DXCC has no award for working all bands on all modes. DXCC
Challenge is one per band regardless of mode (CW, Phone/Image,
or Digital). DXCC CW, DXCC Phone, DXCC Digital are once on
the mode - a good operator can cover all of them with 10 QSOs
make it 12 if the first 10 are all one mode.
5BWAZ is mixed mode only, 160 and 6M WAZ are mixed mode only.
The other single band WAZ are single mode - I suppose someone
could try to work all single band awards on each mode but it
is still not likely than anyone would need a top 50 DXpedition
to fill all the slots for WAZ CW, WAZ SSB and WAZ RTTY in a given
zone - most zones have some relatively common DX located in them.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 2/2/2014 9:17 PM, Larry wrote:
Actually, I suspect the faster you can populate the leader board you
might actually reduce a few dupes but that might work only for those
that look at the leader board. Dupes are going to occur regardless of
the leader board. I was listening to SSB on 15M and the operator said to
several "Thanks for the dupe contact." Some of these stations worked FT5
twice in less than 30 minutes - same band, same mode. Why? Too many
times an operator at the DX station incorrectly logs the wrong call so
people make insurance contacts. That's not a slam on the DX operator who
is doing the best he/she can without much cooperation from many in the
calling masses. It can be incredibly difficult on the DX side trying to
get calls correctly. Not too bad if you 40db over but if you are light
copy it is tough.
Realistically, deleting leader boards is not going to stop anyone from
trying to work all or as many of the slots as possible. Reducing DXCC
or WAZ to only mixed awards (no band or mode distinctions) might have an
effect.
73, Larry W6NWS
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