K5ZD announcements, rules

WPX Rules now in 12 Languages

 The rules for the CQ WPX Contest are now available in 12 languages! See
http://www.cqwpx.com/rules.htm

Thanks to the following people for their help with the translations:

French F6BEE
Spanish EA4KD
German DK9VZ
Russian UA2FM
Japanese JK3GAD
Bulgarian LZ2CJ
Czech OK1DSZ
Dutch PA3AAV
Greek SV1DPI
Portuguese PY2WS
Finnish OH6LI

Two new volunteers are working on Romanian and Italian.  Looking for someone who can help with translation into Chinese.

I wanted to recognize these guys (and others who helped with proof reading) for their extra effort and time to help promote and contribute to contesting.

The purpose of this effort is to help everyone better understand the rules of the contest and to generate more activity (and more fun) for everyone.

K5ZD announcements

New Award Sponsors

Thank you to the following contesters who have stepped forward to sponsor award plaques for the 2009 contest (and beyond).

SSB

  • WORLD 7 MHz Low Power – Neal Campbell, K3NC
  • Single Op High Power Canada – Todd Bendtsen, VE5MX
  • Contest Dxpedition – C6APR Memorial ( PT7ZZ, Andre Coelho sponsor )

CW

  • QRP EUROPE – Julius Fazekas, N2WN
  • WORLD 7 MHz Low Power – Neal Campbell, K3NC

You can see a complete list of award plaques available for the WPX Contest at http://www.cqwpx.com/plaques.htm .

If you receive a plaque (for any contest), please write the sponsors and thank them for their generosity and support of contesting.

 

K5ZD announcements

WPX CW 2009 High Claimed Scores

The complete listing of high claimed scores for the CQ WPX Contest CW 2009 are now available at http://www.cqwpx.com/claimed_2009_wpx_cw_scores.htm.

Scores shown are those claimed by the participants.  Not all scores are calculated correctly. For logs where an entrant did not provide a claimed score we have substituted their calculated score before checking. Paper logs received by post are not included.

The purpose of the high claimed scores is to give entrants an opportunity to confirm that their entry has been submitted in the correct category and to get a first look at the competition.  Please send any corrections or questions to k5zd@cqwpx.com.

A team of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers are helping to type all paper logs into the computer so they can be included in the computer log checking. Thanks go to WA1Z, W1UE, W2JU, K2DSL, W1KQ, W1ZT, KM1P, NJ1F, W1TO, W4AU, W1KM, N8RA, and N1NK. Couldn’t do it without them!

By the time all of the paper logs are entered, the WPX CW will have achieved a record number of log submissions with over 3600 logs!  Checklogs are still welcome to cw@cqwpx.com.