On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Fred Lass wrote:
> I believe that nothing happened because there was no widespread support for
> the changes. It makes me wonder where the suggestions came from in the first
> place.
>
> There may be a need for tweaks in the contest. It will be hard to accomplish
> tweaks when controversial change is proposed instead.
>
> I have a question. Do the point values on each band still make sense? (1
> point for 6 & 2, 2 points for 222 & 432, 4 points for microwave.) In my
> opinion, back when microwave activity was low and sections were multipliers
> the bonuses were valid. If bonus points per QSO are still valid with grid
> squares, are the current values the best numbers?
>
> 73, Fred K2TR
>
IMO yes. As I noted in another post, I've spent 20-30 minutes trying to
make one microwave QSO. They are much more difficult than say 432 MHz
for the same distance.
73, Zack W9SZ
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