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.
Duane and All, I like the idea. Only potential 'opportunity' that I see is, since the FD Exchange is Class and Section, some 'less aware' participants may not know their Grid Square. I would also pro
I personally think this is a marvelous idea. I plan on an extensive presence on VHF+ for FD this year... Even going to the highest decent operation point in CN77! You heard right-- CN77!! If 6 meters
Only potential 'opportunity' that I see is, since the FD Exchange is Class and Section, some 'less aware' participants may not know their Grid Square. I would also propose that the band totals also b
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
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 s
I understand your point from a contest (ie. competetive) stand point. I was trying to make it more attractive to activate more bands. reward for -- David L. Martin w0snj@arrl.net ____________________
I'm in :-) 73 Dan -- K9ZF /R no budget Rover **QRP-l #1269 Check out the Rover Resource Page at: http://www.qsl.net/n9rla List Administrator for: InHam+grid-loc+ham-books ____________________________
Who needs mults? Just go with escalating points per QSO with higher bands. Wait, this is field day, how about 1 mult for each dupe worked :-) 73 Dan -- K9ZF /R no budget Rover **QRP-l #1269 Check out
I think we're talking apples and oranges and getting several different scoring systems blurred. As far as FD goes a 2 transmitter station is not competing against a 7 transmitter station so no foul t
Why not just use the number of ARRL sections worked per band as the Multiplier? 73 de Mike KA2AEV FDNY All Gave Some 9-11-01 Some Gave All _______________________________________________ VHFcontestin
My thoughts exactly. Keep it simple. 73 Tom K6EU _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/v
Well some lively discusion about all this. Since this thread forked in several different directions I decided to just expand on and clarify the original post. I'll address a few questions and comment
If it meant by design to be very casual, and to expose the uninformed to V/UHF Operating/Contesting, then you should keep in mind that they were already exposed to the ARRL Sections, and the very bas
I get on from home during every Field Day. By the end of the first hour, everybody knows his grid square and gives it out as part of the exchange. Field Day is one of the best events to take part in
I'm not planning on making the VHF operation on FD anything major. My idea is more along the line Duane mentioned - to introduce some more people to VHF+. There are an awful lot of people out there w
Well, just my 2 cents...It seems ever since the ARRL dis-allowed a "free" VHF station for the popular 1A class a few years ago, VHF activity has dropped in a big way. Why did they do this?? It seems
With regard to: This is a great idea and I'd include promoting FM operation as well. While it would be nice to use grid squares as a mult, I do think that the "contest within a contest" approach says