K5ZD Announcements, SSB

2015 CQ WW DX Contest Phone Raw Scores

Just 8.5 days after the end of the 2015 CQ WW DX Contest Phone, I am happy to report that the raw scores for all entries received by 3Nov2015 1830z are available on the web site.

http://www.cqww.com/raw.htm?mode=ph

The raw scores are the calculated score before any log checking or other adjustments are made. These scores may not match what you submitted exactly as our country file may be different than yours and you may have some QSOs where the call/country could not be determined.

These are NOT the final results.  Scores may change by 5-10% (or more) depending on the log checking.  Final results will appear in the March 2016 issue of CQ Magazine.

Please send any questions about the raw scores Please send any comments or questions at: https://cqww.com/contact..

 

Randy Thompson, K5ZD

Director – CQ WW DX Contest

web: www.cqww.com

 

Note (November 4): We discovered a small scoring issue with entries that also entered the Classic Overlay.  This was corrected and the raw scores were updated as of 1230z Nov 4.

K5ZD Announcements

New Plaque Sponsors

Thanks to the following for sponsoring award plaques.

CQWW SSB

EUROPE – Multi-Operator Single-Transmitter Low Power (new category)

EA Contest Club

Association of SE Asian Nations – ASEAN (XZ HS XW XU 3W 9M 9V V85 YB DU) – Multi 2 (new)

Champ C. Muangamphun, E21EIC  – SIAM DX GROUP   

CQWW CW

WORLD – Multi-Operator Single-Transmitter Low Power

EA Contest Club

Association of SE Asian Nations – ASEAN (XZ HS XW XU 3W 9M 9V V85 YB DU) – Multi 2 (new)

Champ C. Muangamphun, E21EIC  – SIAM DX GROUP

 

See the full list of available plaques.

K5ZD Announcements, Rules

New Recording Rule

We have had some questions about the new rule on recording the contest.

Here is the complete text of the new rule :

“XII.C. Audio Recordings: Any single operator entrant (see V.A.1) competing for a top three finish at the (a) World, (b) Continent , or (c) USA levels, must record the transmitted and received audio as heard by the operator for the duration of the contest operation.

The recording must be in a common format (e.g., mp3) and should include the audio to each ear as a separate channel.

The recording may be requested by the Committee within 90 days after the log deadline to help adjudicate the log.

The recording files must be provided by the entrant within 5 days of the request.

If no recording is made available, the Committee may reclassify or disqualify the entry. “

Key takeaways:

  1. Only applies to single-op UNASSISTED, including High, Low or QRP power, all band or single band. NOT Assisted, NOT multiop.
  1. Only applies to entrants expecting to finish in the top 3 in World, Continent or USA.

Comment:

The intent of the rule is to help the Committee check out suspicious tuning patterns for guys claiming UNASSISTED. It is hard (but possible) to determine if someone is poaching cluster spots from their Cabrillo file, but really easy when you have the recording.

Q: Where do I submit my recording files?

A: There is no need to submit any recordings unless requested by the Committee.  Please keep the files in a safe place until after the results are announced (March the following year).

 

K5ZD Announcements

2015 CQ WW Survey Closed

The 2015 CQ WW Survey is now closed.  We had originally announced that it would be open until October 10, but we were not receiving many new responses and wanted to save the cost of paying for another month for the survey tool.  Apologies to those that did not get to take the survey.  Experience shows that once we get past several thousand responses, the response percentages do not change much.

Thanks to the 5174 of you that took the survey.  We are working on analyzing the results and will present them here in the blog over the coming weeks.

Responses to 2015 CQWW Survey
Survey responses received each day