If political parties can gerrymander congressional districts I see no reason
why an amoeba with equal area wouldn't work for club competition--within
reason. Octopus also OK but no snakes leading from one superstation to another
all over the country! Actually I like the idea and as Guy points out PVRC also
has some dead spaces.
73,
Jim K4QPL
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On Feb 1, 2013, at 6:21 PM, Bill Haddon <haddon.bill@gmail.com> wrote:
> K4QPL wrote:
>
> > No matter where the NCCC guys put the center of their circle they're going
> > to get either a lot of ocean or a lot of sparsely populated area, or both,
> > on the sides.
>
> Circle? Bad for NCCC. I'll push for amoeba or octopus with same total area
> as a circle of the current specified diameter. We could get pretty creative.
> Would add a whole new element to the club competition.
>
> 73 Blll n6zfo (loyal NCCC member)
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Jim Jordan, K4QPL <k4qpl@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Very true. LACK of activity ruins contests. SS suffers from that to a
> considerable degree in that unlike many contests, you can't work the same
> station on another band. Makes for a very slow Sunday, but fun for the
> casuals who jump in then as "fresh meat".
>
> In fairness to NCCC, and other clubs as well, I would think demographics
> gives PVRC an advantage. With our circle stretching from 3 of the 4 major
> population centers in NC through VA, parts of WVA, MDC, DE and a bit of PA,
> there is a huge population from which to draw contesters and logs when we
> push--which is what has been done. No matter where the NCCC guys put the
> center of their circle they're going to get either a lot of ocean or a lot of
> sparsely populated area, or both, on the sides.
>
> Not that we intend to give up any ground....:-)
>
> 73,
>
> Jim, K4QPL
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Widelitz" <widelitz@gte.net>
> To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 11:10 PM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Have NCCC and PVRC ruined SS?
>
>
>
> How can more activity ruin SS? Once you get a sweep, it's all about finding
> stations you haven't worked before. You don't care where they are. And if
> you haven't gotten a sweep yet, you still want to work as many as you can
> and you don't care where they are.
>
> 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
>
>
>
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