I understand the goal of increasing participation on the higher bands and
support that. I think it would be a shame to negatively impact microwave
activity in the contest since that is when most of the operating is done
during the year.
Beyond that I always had the sense that the higher point value as frequency
increases had to do with effort/time to make the QSO. I just went back to
my January log and I checked 4, 10 band runs that I had. One took 18
minutes, another 20 minutes, and the other 2 23 and 25 minutes. In all cases
the
bottom 4 bands were complete in 2 or 3 minutes. The time on 5 and 10 ghz
was often 5 minutes or so each. Obviously in the northeast January is mostly
home station to home station or rover to home station - in June and Sept of
course there are mountaintop stations that are a bit easier to run with.
So, from a time standpoint, the scoring kind of makes sense.
You might argue that 222 and 432 QSO's can be worked quickly, however there
are no runs on those bands as on 50 and 144. Just the time to move bands
with someone is probably reflected by doubling points. However, I have
always thought that the points for January, where 2G and up go to 8 points is
too high a factor. The June and Sept approach is more reflective of the
time/effort spent and provides enough of an incentive to encourage leaving 50
and 144 to take the time to make the contacts on the higher bands.
My 2 cents.
Jeff K1TEO
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: VHFcontesting [mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf
> Of w8zn54@verizon.net
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 8:54 PM
> To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] Question to the group
>
> Does anyone feel that giving extra points for 2.3G and up has out lived
it's
> usefulness? You can order a complete high quality transverter system from
> DEMI or DB6NT and it's easier to work folks on 10GHz in the 10GHz contest
> than trying to catch them on 2m!!! It just seems that adding another band
> which automatically gives you more Q's and grids is enough of a bonus.
When
> getting on the microwaves required an engineering degree and $20K in test
> equipment, I would agree but now it just seems a relic.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Terry Price
> W8ZN - ex K8ISK/WD8ISK
> 1.8 MHZ - 47 GHz - FM18dv
> Member of the K8GP Contest Group
> FM19bb
>
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