Pacific Northwest Challenge Cup Rules and Results

Effective as of August 08, 2005
As agreed to by representatives from the BCDX Club, the WWDX Club and the WVDX Club
 

2006 - 2007 Official PNW Challenge Cup Results

PREAMBLE

The application of the current rules sometimes results in very lopsided scores for one club which makes it difficult to encourage members of other clubs to get on and make some points for their club. In an attempt to stimulate activity from stations within the clubs' regions it has been decided to try the following changes to the rules for a one year period. The effect of these changes will be reviewed at the 2006 PNW Convention in Vancouver, BC at which time they will be accepted as is, changed or dumped.

 

FOR CONTACTS MADE BY A PARTICULAR STATION TO COUNT

  1. The station has to be somewhere within the boundaries of BC, Washington State or Oregon. For example, any points made by XE1KK, who is a member of the BCDX Club, won't count unless he's in BC, WA or OR when he makes the contacts.
     

  2. At least one of the operators (at a given station in BC, WA or OR) must to be a member of one of the 3 clubs.
     

POINTS MADE BY A PARTICULAR STATION ARE ALLOCATED TO THE VARIOUS CLUBS AS FOLLOWS

1.)   If the station belongs to a member (not the call used, the physical station) then the ratio of total points made by that station allocated to a particular club is equal to the number of ops belonging to that club divided by the total number of ops at that station who belong to any of the 3 clubs. Ops who are not a member of any of the clubs are ignored in this calculation.

  • VE7FO makes 1M points (well, maybe someday). He has 5 newbie ops who don't belong to any of the 3 clubs, himself, 2 ops from WWDXC and 1 from WVDXC. Then BCDXC gets 1/4 = 250k points, WWDXC gets 2/4 = 500k and WVDXC gets 1/4 = 250k.
     

  • VE7UF makes 2M points. There are 4 ops, 2 of whom are members of BCDXC and 2 are not members of any of the clubs. BCDXC gets 2/2 = 2M points.

2).   If the station does not belong to a member then the ratio of total points allocated to a particular club is equal to the number of ops belonging to that club divided by the total number of ops at that station.

  • VE7GL (a non-member) makes 4M points. There are 8 ops. 1 belongs to BCDXC and 2 to WWDXC. The rest are non-members. BCDXC gets 1/8 = 500k points. WWDXC gets 2/8 = 1M points.

 

CONTESTS ADDED

Effective immediately, the following contests have been added to the Challenge Cup

  1. CQWWDX RTTY

  2. CQWPX RTTY

 

SUNSET CLAUSE

These rules are for the 2005- 2006 contest season only.  At the end of the season they will be reviewed to see if we want to keep them, change them or revert to the previous rules. **No changes to the rules have been reported as of September 08, 2007

 

Prepared by Jim Smith,  VE7FO
Pacific Northwest Challenge Cup Coordinator for the BCDX Club
 


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