Hi Steve:
My take on the rules is that sending "/R" is a requirement for Rovers.
Hence my interest in the "/R" issue vis a vis me using digital modes while
Roving.
73
Mark S
VE7AFZ
mark@alignedsolutions.com
604 762 4099
Mark Spencer
Aligned Solutions Co.
mark@alignedsolutions.com
604 762 4099
> On Jan 23, 2018, at 9:33 PM, Steve Stahl <ke7ihg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well here is crazy idea.....If your a rover and using FT8, just use it as
> would normally would and have it count.
> Forget the /r for all digital contacts.
> You could work stations multiple times since your in a different grid
> square.
> I see the dupe problem but I think it could work.
>
> Steve K7SWS
>
> On Jan 23, 2018 21:21, "Alan Larson" <wa6azp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It is part of the principle of the contests that we give more multipliers
> for making more difficult contacts. We get a few for local contacts, and
> more for the distant ones that require more skill.
>
> FT8 (and some of the other digital modes) makes the distant contacts and
> large number of multipliers much easier.
>
> Perhaps we should disallow using those digital contacts for multiplier
> credit. You still could get QSO points for the contact, but to get the
> multiplier for the distant contact, you need to use the more difficult
> mode. This suggestion is unlikely to fly in this form, but perhaps as an
> alternate, limit the number of multipliers from digital to 5 or 10 percent
> of the total multipliers on a band. Say if you get 30 multipliers on 6
> meters, you can only claim 3 of them from digital contacts. That way, it
> will allow digital for the really hard ones, but the ones that can be done
> on traditional modes would be.
>
> Or perhaps having digital contests or entries be separate from the
> non-computer processed modes.
>
> Alan
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