I generally agree with the proposal, with one exception:
There should be only two distinctions, "Analog" and "Digital". The former
would include CW as well as FM/SSB. The later would cover the digital modes.
Essentially it is a distinction between modes that can be copied by ear, and
those that cannot.
Separating CW and Voice creates a problem: how to handle mixed mode QSOs. Over
the years, probably more than half of my QSOs with W2SZ/1 have been mixed mode,
or at least started with mixed mode by me calling their 2M SSB station using CW
when they couldn't copy me on SSB. Moving to the other bands sometimes resulted
in 2XCW QSOs; other times it was SSB <> CW.
I have no strong opinion on scoring Voice vs. Digital, but would lean to simply
giving equal points for the two modes, retaining more points for QSOs on the
higher bands.
73 - Jim K8MR
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob, W3IDT <w3idt@comcast.net>
To: vhfcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, Mar 16, 2020 7:21 pm
Subject: [VHFcontesting] Fwd: VHF Contests Rules Discussion and Proposal
I have sent the following discussion and proposal for VHF Contest Rule
Changes to appropriate ARRL and CQ contest personnel. If you are
interested in the future of VHF contests, please read carefully and
offer your considered opinions and alternate recommendations.
Please forward to your local contest and vhf clubs.
[A copy of this email with a PDF version attached for ease of
re-distribution is somewhere in the email system; it may or may not
appear in VHFcontesting.]
TO: Distribution List
at bottom of this memo.
FROM: Robert F. Teitel, w3idt
for the Wopsononock Mountaintop Operators
VHF contest club, W3SO
And while this proposal is NOT an official
Potomac Valley Radio Club (PVRC) position,
it does represent what appears to be a
consensus of a number of our VHF operators.
RE: VHF Contests Rules Discussion and Proposal
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