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[CQ-Contest] CQWW is a Great Contest -- NOT!

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Subject: [CQ-Contest] CQWW is a Great Contest -- NOT!
From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: k9yc@arrl.net
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 03:17:08 -0800
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I continue to be amazed (disgusted) by those who think this is a great contest. It is simple-minded to the extreme -- for the vast majority of the sations we work, our logging program fills in the exchange. The only challenges are getting the call right and staying in sync with SO2R. And thanks to archaic scoring rules (think the 1940s), if you're not close to the Atlantic basin, you're not really in the contest. From W6, I use DX contests like CQWW and ARRL DX only to see how well my antennas work. This year, I spent 5 hours, mostly trying to work EU on 80 and 40. Everything else was dullsville (how much fun is it working 500 JAs when they provide one mult per band?).

Indeed, CQWW's only virtue is that it is not US/NA centric, and the WPX events are an order of magnitude better.

73, Jim K9YC
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