[CQ-Contest] Innovative Idea

Bob N8YGG bobkathylangham at postoffice.worldnet.att.net
Mon Aug 3 21:01:53 EDT 1998


I agree with Carsten, how often do you get a call from someone who says
" I not in the contest but I thought I'd call and give you a point". 
Its better then having someone call and call and then tell them sorry,
you don't count in THIS test.

Bob N8YGG

=?iso-8859-0?q?Carsten_Steinh=94fel?= wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 12:36:24 -0400, Hill, Russell C. wrote:
> 
> >...
> >I don't believe any point rule can completely eliminate all potential
> >inequities,...
> >
> >Telling the guy with a relatively small station that he counts as 0 points
> >for the vast majority of the stations he hears is probably not going to
> >build his enthusiasm for contesting.  On the other hand, if most of the
> >stations he hears and calls welcome the opportunity to work him, he may
> >think "Hey, this is fun!  When is the next contest?"
> >....
> 
> Above is true, but I still like the idea of inside/out of zone scoring,
> so why not let's make it 1pt inside your zone and 3pts outside of your
> zone and eliminate zero and two point QSOs altogether?
> 
> Just an idea! 73 es su in the contests
> 
> de Carsten, DL1EFD (carsten.steinhoefel at essen.netsurf.de)
> 
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