[CQ-Contest] WW Log submissions

[Richard Zalewski]

Still have not gotten a reply, automated or not, confirming receipt of my
log.  Is this not going to happen due to the danger of spreading a disease?

Dick W7ZR

Vacation or Retire Here
It's Paradise on the Beach
www.w7zr.com


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>From K0HB H. Brakob" <HHBrakob at msn.com  Mon Nov  5 23:17:24 2001
From: K0HB H. Brakob" <HHBrakob at msn.com (K0HB H. Brakob)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 23:17:24 -0000
Subject: [CQ-Contest] SS observations ( kinda long)
References: <3.0.1.32.20011105073854.00813420 at pop.mn.mediaone.net> <00b401c1661f$3a5edf80$45311fcc at bigguy> <02a301c1663c$b23df3c0$6400a8c0 at selfsimilar>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sylvan Katz" <jskatz at sk.sympatico.ca>

> Of course -- one way to eliminate the Sunday afternoon blues would
be to
> change the rules to allow you to work a competitor once on each band
BUT let
> the multiplier only counts once. This would allow "Joe Tribander"
and "Joe
> low band wire stringer" to have a lot more action --- day and night!

No, I think it would have the opposite effect.  "Joe Tribander" and
his ilk
would have to compete with all the big guns "times six bands".

I know, for example, that I probably can't bust the pileup for VE5ZX
or
VY1JA or W0SD early in the contest, but if I wait till Sunday sometime
(after all the "guns" have worked you) then you will be workable by
me.

But if everyone can work you on each band, then Joe Tribander will
never
rise high enough in the food chain to get a shot.   And he won't come
back next year.

And for all of those who'd like to put a time limit on the contest,
here's
an idea for a different kind of scoring.

Horseshoe games end at 21 points.  Time is not a parameter. Using
that model, pick some high (but achievable by a significant number)
score, say 200K points.  When the first station hits that score, the
official contest period is ended.  Of course the rest of us don't know
when that happened, so we continue until we reach the target score,
or until the time allocation (30 hours in the case of SS) ends.

The contest sponsor (they're pretty much all computerized now) then
finds the earliest "200K" log, and ranks all the rest of the logs
based
on their score *at that time*.

Now we can all blissfully charge into the fray, and work all the way
to
0300Z.  Those who made their 200K can quit, and the rest of us can
continue to chug along mashing the <f1> key.

73, Hans, K0HB


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