[Cwo] For the upcoming CW OPEN

[k6rb at baymoon.com]

Atsu san,

Thank you for your note. In CQ WW CW I worked 172 different JA stations
(including you, thank you!). Some were clearly HP, but many were LP and
even QRP. If we could attract half of those participants to do one or more
CWO sessions, it would be a huge success.

Here is what must be understood. It is possible for someone running LP and
a modest antenna to win a session. If a JA station works 80 other JA
stations and, say, 80 different US stations in a session, that would give
him 160 x 160 points, or 25,600. That would be a top 10 score for that
session and would require a rate of only 40 QSOs per hour. If that same
station worked 80 JAs, 20 BAs, and 100 different US stations (50 QSOs per
hour), the score would be 40,000 points. In CWO 2011, that would have been
enought to WIN that session!!! Here, the poor man wins (hi) because the
mults do not depend upon distance and power, but only on the number of
different stations you can work.

I agree with you that CWops needs to encourage new people to try CW, but
CW OPEN is not designed to do that. If we started to add in different
factors for types of key and so on, it would dilute the main purpose which
is for people who are already CW contest participants to try this new one.

What makes it special is that it is not a contest where a QRO station with
big antennas is a sure winner. The more hams who participate in CWO, the
more it is likely that someone with LP and a wire antenna could win a
session. That's what is so interesting about it. And, we have to get that
message across.

You do not have to send the emails; I will do that. I just need you to
help translate the invitation into Japanese using Kanjii. Then, send me
back the translation and I will embed it in the emails that I send.

73,

Rob K6RB


> Hi Rob
> I can help translation from English to Japanese,
> but cannot help to send e-mails to those JA hams you listed since I have
> no
> idea about their e-mail address.
>
> Regarding the contest itself, here is my humble opinion;
>
> There are too many ordinary style contests almost every weekends.
> And all of those ordinary contests are not so interest for me and may be
> for
> many hams who have only modest set up too.
> Because, rich station who has huge antenna and big power is always strong.
> It's something like a station power competition instead of an operation
> technique competition.
> Rich man wins, poor man lose. :-(
>
> As one of important objective of CWops, we must grow new comers or new
> generation.
> So the CWO must encourage those hams as a priority.
>
> For example,
> 1. Max power 50W (or set high powerpenalty)
> 2. Give hand key multi (Straight key x4, Bug x2, Paddle x1, Keyboard x0.5
> etc.)
> 3. Give antenna multi (Dipole/Vert x 1, in case of beam 2lel  x1/2, 3 ele
> x
> 1/3, 4 ele x 1/4, etc.)
> 4. must use Paper logging (no computer :-)
>
> Or rather than that, let's do the CWO on MorseRunner on computer.
>
> Please take a look at HST championship,
> many young peopole can comepete their technique with fair condition.
> http://9m2pju.blogspot.com/2011/11/9th-iaru-high-speed-telegraphy-world.html
>
> Thank you for reading
> 73+88
> Atsu, JE1TRV
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Rob
>   To: cwo at kkn.net ; Peter Chamalian ; n3jt at verizon.net ; Ja1nut ; JE1TRV
>   Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 4:48 AM
>   Subject: For the upcoming CW OPEN
>
>
>   Gents:
>
>   I've been playing around with my CQ WW log, here. I had 200 JA QSOs out
> of
> 472! That's amazing. After importing the log into a spreadsheet and
> removing
> duplicate callsigns, I have 172 JA stations that took part in CQ WW.
>
>   What I'd like to do is ask JA1NUT and JE1TRV to translate an invitation
> I
> will write (in English) and then I'd like to send that Japanese-language
> invitation to this list of 172 JA amateurs inviting them to participate in
> CW OPEN 2012.
>
>   There was quite a nice list of China participants, too. So, I'm going to
> translate the invitation into Mandarin and email those amateurs.
>
>   My EU list is not all that extensive. Maybe Pete or someone else on the
> East Coast can do a similar thing with their log for EU countries. I know
> I
> did work a lot of Spain, so could probably pull together a list for that
> country, too.
>
>   I think if we send an invitation early on (in January?) and, again, in
> July, we will turn out quite a bit more activity for the CW OPEN 2012.
>
>   What do you think about that idea?
>
>
>   73,
>
>   Rob K6RB
>
>
>
>