[Discuss-gnuradio] CQ WW contest has a new category, XTREME

[Bob McGwier]

For those who are amateur radio operators and are interested in software 
radio, cognitive radio,  diversity reception, and other such things,  
the contest committee at CQ Magazine has put together a new category of 
operation to help promote innovation.  The brain child of K3LR and K1DG 
with support from many other members of the committee made the following 
official rules and the announcement follows.  Doug, K1DG, came to the 
SDR forum at Dayton and announced it directly to us (before the contest 
forum heard the official announcement).  The Xtreme class is "anything 
goes within reason" and "within reason" is clearly defined and quite 
generous.  Who knows if the "within reason" will continue to be as 
generous as this but the developer/geeks are clearly having the gauntley 
throw down.  Some fantastic experiments can easily be foreseen.  At the 
contest forum at Dayton, it was revealed that banks for Perseus 
receivers had been deployed around the world to "record the contest" and 
some truly fascinating analysis and use was made of these recordings.

I am personally interested in being on a team to develop and operate in 
this class but please contact me OFF LIST, direct email.  Here is the 
official  announcement.  Please, take this and send it everywhere you 
can think of where we might gather some interest.

Bob McGwier
N4HY

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This year at Dayton, the new CQWW Xtreme categories were announced.

These new categories (single-operator and multi-operator) have been
established to allow amateurs to participate in the CQ WW Contest
while experimenting creatively with Internet-linked stations and other
new technologies that currently are not permitted in any of the
existing contest categories. The full rules for the new Xtreme
Category, as approved by the CQ WW Contest Committee, appear in June
CQ magazine and also at:

http://cqww.com/CQ_WW_Xtreme_Rules.pdf

This PDF file may be copied and re-posted to other Web sites as long
as this text is included: "Reprinted with permission from the June
2009 issue of CQ magazine; copyright CQ Communications, Inc."

Please forward this email to your local club reflectors and newsletters.

The new categories are effective with the 2009 CQ WW Contest later this year.

In essence, (almost) anything goes! The "almost" part means that you
must obey the rules of your country, including power (up to the CQWW
1500W maximum), licensing, and remote operation (if you use it).

It is permitted to use multiple transmitting sites with one callsign
(if legal in your country), but all transmitting sites must be located
in the same country and CQ zone, and only one signal is permitted on a
band at any time. Single-ops with packet, Skimmer, robot stations,
on-line databases, etc. are OK! Multiops with remote operators and
remote receiving sites around the world...OK!

The initial response at both the Contesting Forum and SDR Forum at
Dayton was very positive, with some of the SDR Forum attendees
actually challenging each other in public! This is a chance for
experimenters to see which technology innovations actually work best
in competitive situations.

If you have questions about the rules, please send them to     address@hidden

There is an also email reflector (address@hidden) set up
for discussions relating to these new categories. You can subscribe by
sending email to address@hidden with the word
SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and message text, or go here:
http://dayton.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/xtreme-talk
(thanks, K5TR)

K3LR has stepped up and is sponsoring the K3TUP Memorial Trophies for
the winners of the single-op and multi-op Xtreme categories.

73, and let the Xtreme Contesting Games begin!

Doug K1DG


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