Fact: The more ice cream is consumed in London, England...the greater the number of deaths due to frostbite in Cape Town South Africa. Fallacy: By banning the sale of ice cream in London, South Afric
Fallacy: The more ice cream is consumed in London, England...the greater the number of deaths due to frostbite in Cape Town South Africa. Lesson: Armchair analysts examining false facts are bound to
I do have a Compaq Alpha Server and I don't think it would choke on 100M records. If I could get a copy of the data, I'd be happy to port the data into a database, do any number crunching required a
Agreed. Adding classes to a contest does a few beneficial things (in my opinion): 1) Gives rise to new levels of competition. After all, what's a contest all about? The more people that get fired up
Lots of cuts and snips here from George's post. I've been a proponent of a contest with a distance scoring scheme for some time and I think it could be a big hit in the September contest. I won't bor
Author: kb1grs-vhfcontesting@vms.gratuitous.org (Joel N. Weber II)
Date: Thu Jun 19 16:44:40 2003
I seem to recall discussion of this a while ago, quite possibly on this list. One of the problems is that those who don't happen to own a GPS suddenly have another incentive to not participate.
Joel, Not necessarily. One of the proposed scoring schemes was to use 4 character grid squares (ie. FM19 in my case) vs. a scoring scheme using 6 digit grid squares (ie. FM19ml). Most rovers could de
John, Exactly. I had proposed (about 2 or 3 years ago) a distance scoring scheme that stopped at 3 or 4 points (I can't remember which now) I think it was at 4 points. All qso's that were at the 4 po
I don't see not having a GPS a problem unless you are on the move. The only drawback might be the requirement of exchanging a 6 digit grid. Personally, I'd like to see 6 digit grids exchanged anyway