Ev,
I like both ideas, especially the All-band VHF Sprint which is an idea that
came up a couple of times during the recent brain storming that took place
secondary to the decrease in activity posts. I had been giving this a lot
of thought lately too. An all band sprint of a 6 - 8 hour duration could
be a really fun and fast paced event.
Getting the results sooner would be great and maybe set a new standard for
faster result turn-around times for all ARRL contests.
Instead of a 5 hour event, I'd suggest an 8 hour event after daylight
savings time starts (3pm - 11pm or so) to give the rovers some time to move
around between a few grids before it gets too dark. It would also be a
great opportunity to implement some of the other ideas that came out of the
on-line discussions such as a multi-op low power category instead of a
limited-multi category and have scoring with less emphasis on microwaves
(like 1 point for any qso between 50-450MHz and 2 points for any qso above
902MHz OR 1 or 2 points for all qso's regardless of band).
What's the next step?
73,
Ed K3DNE
At 08:39 AM 5/25/2003 -0400, Ev Tupis (W2EV) wrote:
>Imagine that the ARRL provided a simple Paper-to-Cabrillo program (the one
>that
>looks just like their paper VHF-UHF-EME logs, but outputs in Cabrillo
>format for
>submittal) and then provided an incentive to submit in Cabrillo format...like
>making the official results available 60-days (or sooner) after the conclusion
>of the contest.
>
>What would that be worth to you?
>
>Let's find out! Can we think "outside of the box"? Try one of these on for
>size, both would still benefit from that Paper-to-Cabrillo system noted above:
>
>--- 1 ---
>Make the August UHF Contest a Cabrillo-only event...and release the official
>line-scores in 45-days. (!)
>
>--- 2 ---
>Don't wanna mess with existing events? How about this...establish a new
>contest
>as a testing ground: the "ARRL All-band VHF Sprint". One saturday, from
>6:00pm
>until 11:00pm local time. QSO's take place during the activity hours (see
>footnote). All log submittals take place using Cabrillo. Recap published in
>QST (like now), but the line-score results are released 30-days after the
>close
>of the event (15-days to submit, and 15-days to process).
>
>Ev, W2EV
>
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