It's not really worth to look back because it's meaningless, each year and
each contest has its own conditions and history.
How to compare a result obtained 20 years ago with the typical poorer setups
(i.e 40m yagis were rare) and a recent one with stacked arrays and multiple
receiver systems has the same reliability degree than comparing a score in a
solar peak with scores done in years with no 15 and 10 meters openings.
Among the few parameters that are really possible to check there is
accuracy.
Penalties make very good sense and heavy penalties do punish who hasn't good
hears and guess qsos .
73,
Mauri I4JMY
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Priest" <w3cf@home.com>
To: "CQ-Contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 3:48 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Dayton Topics past WRTC
>
> Hello All.........
>
> While we are getting together for a WRTC meeting and you are thinking
about
> that I'd like to give you one more topic to think about. As the new
> President of FRC I have been hearing strong rumblings that my membership
> thinks the 3 QSO penalty is excessive. What do the rest of you think? I
> have an addendum to that question. If the answer is you are satisfied with
> the 3 Q penalty do the old records get an asterisk? (i.e.: * pre-UBN.)
Or
> do we go back (if at all possible) and subject the old records to the
same
> UBN scrutiny that we now suffer under? N3OC figured out we at V26B would
> have to average 70 Q's more an hour for 48 hours to approach the NA record
> in CQ Phone to pass today's average UBN figures. And what, pray tell,
would
> happen if I just so happen to have QSL cards for QSO's that were not
> allowed? Some things to think about on route to Amateur Radio Mecca. See
you
> in the Miami Room Thursday night.
>
> 73
>
> Doug W3CF
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Doug Priest W3CF
> 1360 Providence Lane
> Hatfield, Pa. 19440
> w3cf@home.com
>
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