On 03/17/2012 07:44 AM, Herb Schoenbohm wrote: > Please no! Let the Stew be the Stew. It is the best and fairest TB > contest ever devised by mankind. I wouldn't mind if we had one every > month especially at the summer solstice, vernal and autumnal equinox > when those in the southern hemisphere could have even more kick. Plus > the IARU has those nonsense QTC's which would be totally inappropriate > for TB DXing.
No, the IARU HF contest does NOT have QTC's. You are confusing it with the WAE contest. The IARU exchange is 59(9) + ITU Zone. The ITU zones are smaller than the CQWW zones, and would provide a good distance-based mapping. See http://www4.plala.or.jp/nomrax/ITU/index.html for a map of the ITU zones. 73, Steve, N2IC _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
