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Richard, K2WR will be active in CQ WW DX 160m CW Contest 23-25 January 2009

I think everyone has noticed that the CQWWCC is becoming more and more open and carries on a dialogue with the contest community.

Computer technologies now let us make more QSOs in the contests, every year we see new equipment and computer software offered to help us achieve higher results in the contest activities.

We would like to take this opportunity to inform you of a change to rule XII of the CQ WW DX contest.

The battle for Ukrainian representation on Moscow WRTC 2010 gains strength so we see more publications in different contest-related media.

NP4Z will be active in CQ WW DX SSB Contest 24 - 25 october 2009.

We persist that the station, named in this "analysis", actually called us during the contest, and we are interested not less than the rest of the readers who is standing behind those callsigns.

Latest contests refereeing is the subject being discussed widely. So how the contest refereeing is being made?

My motivaton for writing this article was my (RG3K, op. UA3QDX) disqualification in CQWW CW-2008 and so-called "private" disqualification(?) in RDXC-2009.

6Y1V Team are again offering a free trip to a young ham, who must be 21 or younger.

Recently the organizers of probably the most popular contest - CQWW – started to publish the logs of the participants after log checking.

When CQ WW DX Contest start open log policy many radioamateurs start examinate the logs and even some groups of radio amateurs is start making own analyze of the logs.

TOP Scores CQ WW DX CW 2008 DQed EF8M, RG3K, YU2A

The committee is aware there are a few entrants who feel the need to win using any available method.

WW4LL and NP3D will be active from Costa Rica 23 - 28 september 2009 as TI5/WW4LL and TI5/NP3D.