Some thoughts on WPX:
1. My personal view - I wasn't around when WPX started - is that WPX was
conceived as a DX contest, simply allowing for a more uniform distribution of
multipliers. At the time there were 20 USA prefixes, with geographic
distinction. W1's couldn't be licensed in or operate in W6, other than by
signing /6. So the USA became 20 multipliers, not just one. And to keep it a
DX contest, same country QSOs were given zero points.
2. This all changed with 2x1 calls, both in the USA and in many other
countries, when anybody could be a "rare" multiplier.
3. Some years back, in the days of zero point same country QSOs, I decided to
go for a big zero point WPX effort. As I recall I had something like 150 USA
QSOs, which I believe was the second biggest all time zero point score, behind
only Dr. Bafoofnik, a.k.a. Spike, W9XR, who one year had about 300 such QSOs.
4. The next year, they made it one point for same country QSOs. And of course,
with same country QSO points, it ceased to be a pure DX contest.
5. For many years WPX was just an SSB contest. CW is a relatively recent
addition. I think that helps explain why extra points are given for low band
QSOs, since on SSB those have always been tougher than high band QSOs, given
both propagation and the fact that many or most low band SSB DX QSOs used to
involve split frequency operation.
It's still a fun contest, one of the few where it doesn't take a huge travel
budget to be a "rare one", or at least a "unique" one.
73 - Jim K8MR (In recent years NC8C in WPX)
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