Gerry,
awesome ideas
Now to find a contest sponsor willing to embrace it !!!
and let it grow, not abandon it after a year or two
steve
KG5VK
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Gerry Hull <gerry@yccc.org> wrote:
> Like the theme, Ward...
>
> How about this as an outside-the-box simple example of a new contest:
>
> -Form inter-continental virtual teams
> -intra-team QSOs count zero points
> -rest of scoring matches a current contest type (like Zn/Cty)
> -Exchange would include a team acronym to conform to rules.
>
> What a strategy fest this would be! First, finding the proper
> team members on each continent; which team combinations
> would work best based on propagation, etc. Each continent
> has it's own advantages based on TOD and population centers;
>
> This could work well if teams were made up of stations in the same
> category.
>
> Food for thought.
>
> 73, Gerry W1VE
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Opening up the team competition to be more than just combining scores
> > would be very interesting. The software to allow multiple stations to
> > interact as a "distributed multi-multi" already exists. Remote
> > multi-operator stations are already straightforward, if not easy, as the
> > K4VV team has demonstrated. So the idea of multiple operators using
> > multiple stations is certainly do-able, although with the demise of the
> WW
> > X-treme category, such operation does not have a "home" in any major
> > contest at the moment.
> >
> > Here are some possible team scenarios:
> >
> > 1) Multiple operators using one station via remote links, ala K4VV.
> > 2) Multiple independent stations networked together for logging, ala many
> > IARU HQ operations
> > 3) Multiple stations with a single operator using remote control and
> > networked together
> > 3a) All stations are single-band throughout the contest
> > 3b) All stations are multi-band but the team is limited to one signal
> > per band
> > 3c) Combination of single- and multi-band stations plus multiplier
> > stations
> > 4) Receive-only stations added in "partner mode" over the network to
> > support transmitting station
> >
> > I'm sure this inventive audience will think of many more ways to combine
> > multiple operators and multiple stations :-) Deciding on strategies
> would
> > be challenging - do you optimize by station capability, by operator
> > capability, how do you allocate time slots between operators and
> stations,
> > etc etc etc. I mean, really, we've been playing essentially the same
> game
> > for upwards of 80 years. Surely there are other useful ways of competing.
> >
> > On the second question - why don't we ask them? I completely agree that
> > what they come up with would be unlikely to look all that familiar but it
> > would probably be fun. As long as the resulting activity advances radio
> > know-how and operating skill, why not?
> >
> > 73, Ward N0AX
> >
> > On 12/3/2013 11:00 AM, cq-contest-request@contesting.com wrote:
> >
> >> > Or thinking of a team situation, what if you were in a team of six,
> one
> >> on
> >> >each continent, in say a 24 hour contest using traditional scoring but
> >> you
> >> >could only operate 4 hours each. Using instant messaging or voice chat
> >> to
> >> >co-ordinate your plans, what tactics would you employ? Would that be
> fun
> >> >to try? Who knows you may even make new friends.
> >> >
> >> > (snip)
> >> >
> >> >Finally as someone else said how would a bunch of gamers design a radio
> >> >contest? I suspect quite differently to what we have now.
> >> >
> >> >73
> >> >Mark ZL3AB
> >>
> >
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