I don't like the idea of giving multipliers for working the SAME person on
different bands. Doesn't make sense that working the same person 10 miles
away on several bands is worth more than working someone 300 miles away on
one band. This also will tend to make one ignore the single band station
even more than now. Numerous times in ARRL contests I have had the
opportunity to work a station at 100+ miles on 2 meters but they chose to
work another closer station (to them) on several bands. The reason is
obvious with 2 meter contact worth 1 point. IMHO, we should be allowed to
work a station only once per contest period.
We will have more folks participating in contests if we have more reward for
the one or two band stations.
David Hinton
KE4YYD EL79rv
----- Original Message -----
From: "David L. Martin" <dlmarti@kc2lcf.net>
To: "Duane - N9DG" <n9dg@yahoo.com>
Cc: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] The Informal FD VHF+ Challenge - An Idea
> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 18:26 -0700, Duane - N9DG wrote:
> > How about having an informal, low overhead, piggybacked VHF
> > "contest" where those groups (or individuals) who participate
> > on 6M and up post on this reflector the following:
> >
> > 1. Club name and location.
> > 2. Number of 6M and up Q's per band.
> > 3. Section totals per band.
> > 4. Grid totals per band.
> > 5. Longest DX for each band operated.
> > 6. Approximate number of ops.
>
> Since we only have section, call, and freq we could only base the
> "score" on just these factors. Section is not really fair, since the
> size or area of a section is not consistent.
>
> I propose:
> 1 point for each 6m contact,
> 2 points for each 2m contact,
> 3 points for each 220 contact, etc.
>
> The multiplier would would be the number of bands you worked a
> particular call. Lets say you worked a particular guy on 6m, 2m, and
> 70cm thats 1+2+4=7 points. You worked him on three bands so the
> multiplier is 3 for a total of 21 points. This would even out the
> playing field (a little at least), a promote more bands for Field Day.
>
> Granted this is pretty informal, but could eventually grow to be a
> contest within a contest.
>
>
>
>
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