Though as the numbers showed thousands enter and only a handful win accolades. Some people honestly think they can win the contest. All you have to do is make QSOs and have fun. Again, as a participant, you don’t need to know any of this. Your final score will be the total number of points you earned by doing QSOs multiplied by the number of multipliers you accumulated according to the contest rules. Remember the typical goal of a contest is to have you talk to as many people as you can (maximize QSOs) in as many places as you can (maximize your multipliers). What makes things even more complicated is a typical contest has “multipliers.” Your multipliers are tallied based on some criteria like the number of countries you talked with. This would all be very tedious if we didn’t have computers! But, computers sort this bit out easily.
Working someone within your continent (but different country) yields a different number of points, and so on. For example, the CQ Magazine Worked All Prefixes (WPX) contest gives you three points for talking to a different continent on the 10m/15m/20m bands and six points for talking to a different continent on the 40m/80m/160m bands. Sometimes the number of points depends on how far the contact is from you. Usually, things work like this: You get a certain number of points for each QSO you make. If we disagree on the band we used, or the mode we claimed to have used, or something else, the computer program that analyzes these logs makes a determination for who is right. If we exchanged information (such as our name) then the computer will verify that I captured your name properly and vice-versa. If you think you’ve worked me (NE1RD) in the contest at a certain time and on a certain frequency, then that QSO should be recorded in your log and in my log. The contest sponsor usually feeds all these logs into a computer which then checks the logs for accuracy. What happens next is kind of amazing, and it could only happen in our age of computers. When the contest is over, there is a special way to package up your log and submit it to the contest sponsor like CQ Magazine. You capture all this into a logging program on your computer. What does it mean to have a contest on the air? In general, these events are held within a certain time frame measured in hours, or at most, a couple of days, and the general idea is usually to talk to as many people as you can, as quickly as you can, on as many bands as you can, being careful to record information you get from those other stations. Everybody else played in the contest without expecting to “win” anything. That’s a lot of people! Note that there are only about one hundred “winners” that topped their categories. In 2017, over 8600 logs were submitted, and I’m certain that some people played in the contest without sending their login. In some of the larger contests, such as CQ Magazine’s CQ World Wide DX SSB contest, thousands of people participate. It is OK to push a buggy with your infant as you go. Instead, contesting is like a fun run held on a Saturday morning where some people run for time, others just run with their friends for some companionship, and some just walk.
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