John Barber GW4SKA raised some very good points regarding the claimed
contest scores. I am new to contesting due to a lack of Macintosh contest
software. Thanks to W7AY's cocoaModem software many of the minority (Mac)
RTTY operators can now participate. At first I was a little disappointed
that Chen's built in logging tool did not summarize the data by bands or
generate a claimed score. I now understand and appreciate the scoring task
is best left to the contest managers and all that is needed to participate
is the Cabrillo output. W7AY's cocoaModem provides the Cabrillo format
output.
For the 2005 RTTY Roundup I submitted the AA5VU.log file and will wait for
the summary when it appears in QST. Per the ARRL web page I went to
http://b4h.net/cabforms/ web page to enter my data. The form required me to
provide band and multiplier totals so I passed for the 2005 Roundup. For
the BARTG Sprint I entered some dummy data on the web page making my claimed
score equal the number of QSOs. This put me near the bottom of the claimed
scores listing. For the 2005 UK-DX RTTY I took some time to manually
calculate the totals from my .log file so I could enter the data to at least
show I participated. Michael Dinkelman's listing shows
AA5VU 131 169 25 4,225
I feel the number of QSOs is correct but I could have (probably) screwed up
the manually calculated data for points and multipliers. The UK-DX contest
manager has accepted my cocoaModem AA5VU.log file for crunching with all
others.
With only 131 QSO's and limited multipliers my entry was a non competitive
fun run. Some people enter contests to win and some, like me, just like to
make a few QSO' and participate. Sometimes we get lucky and even work a new
one a contest.
Thanks to all for Q's in the UK-DX RTTY contest. A special TNX to Bill
Turner for his advice (flame) on use (abuse) of macros. TNX to Bill I
ditched the %X ACK that I tested in 2nd half of BARTG. For the UK-DX I used
tighter macro exchanges and it did help with the QSO rate. I even had the
guts to make some CQ runs. Better band condition would have helped. I heard
NOTHING on 10 meters.
73 Dick - AA5VU
Happiness is working a new one - once worked they are just DX
> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:44:15 +0000
> From: John Barber <SKA@bartg.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: [RTTY] Unofficial "Claimed scores lists"
> To: "rtty@contesting.com" <rtty@contesting.com>
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> You will all have seen the lists of claimed scores which are posted
> after every RTTY contest. They must be popular with some contesters;
> personally I rarely post a score after a test. The whole idea seems
> depressing as such a list can only tell you if you have done badly .. it
> can never tell you that you have won! There are some more serious
> problems for a contest manager when these lists appear.
>
>
snip
> As a matter of interest the list above showed 114 claimed scores. About
> 40 of those stations have not yet sent in logs to BARTG, but we already
> had 540 logs submitted when the list was posted. Keep them coming to:
> ska@bartg.demon.co.uk
> if you want to be in the results, not just the brag list!
>
> Cheers,
>
> John GW4SKA
> BARTG Contest Manager
>
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