[CQ-Contest] Contest Teams

[Gerry Hull]

Like the theme, Ward...

How about this as an outside-the-box simple example of a new contest:

 -Form inter-continental virtual teams
 -intra-team QSOs count zero points
 -rest of scoring matches a current contest type (like Zn/Cty)
 -Exchange would include a team acronym to conform to rules.

What a strategy fest this would be!  First, finding the proper
team members on each continent; which team combinations
would work best based on propagation, etc.   Each continent
has it's own advantages based on TOD and population centers;

This could work well if teams were made up of stations in the same
category.

Food for thought.

73, Gerry W1VE





On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Ward Silver <hwardsil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Opening up the team competition to be more than just combining scores
> would be very interesting.  The software to allow multiple stations to
> interact as a "distributed multi-multi" already exists. Remote
> multi-operator stations are already straightforward, if not easy, as the
> K4VV team has demonstrated.  So the idea of multiple operators using
> multiple stations is certainly do-able, although with the demise of the WW
> X-treme category, such operation does not have a "home" in any major
> contest at the moment.
>
> Here are some possible team scenarios:
>
> 1) Multiple operators using one station via remote links, ala K4VV.
> 2) Multiple independent stations networked together for logging, ala many
> IARU HQ operations
> 3) Multiple stations with a single operator using remote control and
> networked together
>     3a) All stations are single-band throughout the contest
>     3b) All stations are multi-band but the team is limited to one signal
> per band
>     3c) Combination of single- and multi-band stations plus multiplier
> stations
> 4) Receive-only stations added in "partner mode" over the network to
> support transmitting station
>
> I'm sure this inventive audience will think of many more ways to combine
> multiple operators and multiple stations :-)  Deciding on strategies would
> be challenging - do you optimize by station capability, by operator
> capability, how do you allocate time slots between operators and stations,
> etc etc etc.  I mean, really, we've been playing essentially the same game
> for upwards of 80 years. Surely there are other useful ways of competing.
>
> On the second question - why don't we ask them?  I completely agree that
> what they come up with would be unlikely to look all that familiar but it
> would probably be fun.  As long as the resulting activity advances radio
> know-how and operating skill, why not?
>
> 73, Ward N0AX
>
> On 12/3/2013 11:00 AM, cq-contest-request at contesting.com wrote:
>
>> > Or thinking of a team situation, what if you were in a team of six, one
>> on
>> >each continent, in say a 24 hour contest using traditional scoring but
>> you
>> >could only operate 4 hours each.  Using instant messaging or voice chat
>> to
>> >co-ordinate your plans, what tactics would you employ?  Would that be fun
>> >to try?  Who knows you may even make new friends.
>> >
>> > (snip)
>> >
>> >Finally as someone else said how would a bunch of gamers design a radio
>> >contest?  I suspect quite differently to what we have now.
>> >
>> >73
>> >Mark ZL3AB
>>
>
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