Hello,
a small idea about the "national competition" in IARU-contest with its
intention to stimulate as much activity as possible which means at least
medium-guns, too: Why not building the "national result" through the
addition of the best 30 ( or 50 or ???) Single-Op-Allband-Scores of
that country. All may operate "assisted" so that the antenna- and
networking-hardware of the existing HQ-stations can still be used. But
it would be an incentive for a bigger number of contesters to make as
many contacts as possible - in the classic sense of contesting. It would
reduce the need for "marketing" or "flag waving" for the one national
HQ-Call - with the problem, that this marketing is only then really
successful when the mass of hams make more (not to mention exclusively)
contacts with "their" HQ-station than with others. The amassing of
"small-guns-QSOs" will be divided through many stations - not all
known as long as the event is still running. The motivation for
medium-guns to qualify for the bold print in the results should be big
- achieving to be one of the 50 constituting the "national result" -
and perhaps getting an invitation for a better station next year.
It may be worth some discussion to find the optimal number - big enough
to have a broad effect and small enough to not exclude medium size-ham
populations. But the overall size and contesting activity still should
be reflected as it is in i.e. football, too: Brazil, England, Germany or
Italy have an advantage simply by the numer of active players and by the
resulting level of their national leagues (o.k. I delete the german
league :-( )
Just a rough idea. 73,
Chris (DL8MBS)
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