Damn, Ward, this post earns you a nomination to the Hall of Fame.
Oh, crap, you're already ensconced. (Did you hear me cheering from the back of
the banquet room?)
73, HB
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On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Incentivising stations to beam to all parts of the world thereby
> > making it an all inclusive competition (after all it is called a
> worldwide
> > contest). There is nothing more frustrating in a contest than hearing
> > stations who cannot hear you because they are not beaming your way and
> > especially when they are forlornly calling CQ.
> I made a proposal some years ago for a "coverage" contest that could be
> run as an overlay to any existing contest. Extra points would be
> awarded based on the number of clock hours (0000-0059, 0100-0159, etc)
> in which you made a QSO with some designated area. Let's take grid
> fields, perhaps: New Zealand populates the RE and RF grid fields. For
> each clock hour during which I make an RE-field QSO (duplicate or not)
> on each band (6 band-QSOs available per clock hour) I get, say, 1000 points.
> There are 18 x 18 grid fields (324 total) of which about 80 (based on a
> casual glance at a map -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System) could be active
> from land-based stations. With 6 bands and 48 hours, that results in
> 23,040 band-clock-field bonuses to ring up for 23 MEELYUN points. Sound
> like fun?
> All contacts could follow the CQ WW exchange rules, for example, and
> thus be perfectly valid for both the mainline contest and the coverage
> contest. Dupes are snipped out by the log checking enzymes without
> penalty. Grid fields could be available via a callbook lookup function
> or something like that.
> We would then change from yelling, "What's your call?" to "What's your
> grid?" but that's a minor issue :-)
> 73, Ward N0AX
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