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"The CQ WW Contest has been making submitted logs public for many years. The last two WPX surveys indicated that WPX participants wanted the same," said WPX COntest Director Randy Thompson K5ZD on his WPX contest blog.
The first batch of WPX logs are now available on the cqwpx.com website from the 2010 WPX SSB contest.
There are 4,581 logs in all, ranging from 2E0MBF to ZY7C.
Logs from the CQ WPX CW contest are expected to be posted on the internet some time in January.
Thompson made the move public on Christmas Day in a short message on the CQ-Contest reflector.
"In a sport where so much is done from the privacy of our own stations, the transparency of open logs promotes fair play and sportsmanship," said Thompson.
"We actually made the decision after the 2009 survey," Thompson told radio-sport.net.
"But first, had to get it in the rules. That takes a year. Then had to process the logs. Then had to get some programming help," he added.
While the issue of public logs was initially controversial in CQ WW, the furor has died down substantially.
As for why the WPX logs should be public, Thompson said one main reason is the growing number of web sites that analyze the propagation and activity from CQ WW.
"There are a number of web sites that use the CQ WW log data to show interesting charts or analysis," Thompson said. "We want the same thing for the WPX Contest."
Some have speculated that all CQ Magazine contests may be heading in the same direction of public logs, while the ARRL has been silent about the matter so far.
One part that's different about the WPX move to make logs public that K5ZD enlisted the help of David K2DSL for some programming help, to insure that email addresses and home mailing addresses weren't also made public as well.
That announcement came as the WWROF, founded in the last year by a group of high-profile contesters, added two foreign hams, John Sluymer VE3EJ and Tine Brajnik S50A to their leadership roster.
"Adding international leadership to the team along with our newly obtained 501(c)(3) status will go a long way to accelerating value to the contest community," said John Dorr K1AR in an email to radio-sport.net.
As for what exactly the WWROF is going to do for the contest community and for contesting in general, Dorr laid out these items:
Potential Projects (contingent on funding):
Contest Awards Management (current and expanded program opportunities)
"In the end, the contest community will define our activities based on their financial contributions, good ideas, and hands-on administrative support for future programs," wrote K1AR.
