CQ World Wide DX Contest
A new REST API has been created to provide access to the CQ WW Score Records. This programming interface can be used by other web sites and logging software to integrate score records into their applications. They were created at the request of Dmiry R4WW, the programmer behind the cq-contest.net online scoreboard.
The APIs are easy to use and fully documented at http://www.cqww.com/api_reference.htm .
As the new CQWW Contest Director, my first formal act is to suspend the position of Director.
With concurrence from CQ management, I am implementing a new leadership structure. Specifically, I am creating a triumvirate. For those not familiar with the term, you can consider this to be three (3) “co-directors.”
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Doug Zwiebel, KR2Q, Named Director of CQ World Wide DX Contest
(Hicksville, NY) July 1, 2016 – Longtime CQ World Wide DX Contest Committee member Doug Zwiebel, KR2Q, has been named Director of the CQ World Wide DX Contest, CQ magazine Publisher Dick Ross, K2MGA, announced today. Doug succeeds Randy Thompson, K5ZD, who has been CQWW Director for the past four years. The CQWW DX Contest is amateur radio’s most popular contest and may be the world’s largest competitive sporting event in terms of numbers of participants.
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The final rules for the 2016 CQ WW DX Contest SSB/CW are now available. The only changes were due to CQ magazine’s change in policy regarding paper certificates.
View this file to see all changes. cqww_rules_2016_changes
The translation of the CQ WW rules into 15 languages has been completed. Thanks to the following contesters for their help with the translations: Continue reading “Rules Announced for CQ WW DX Contest 2016”