[CQ-Contest] SS Sundays

[Steve Sacco NN4X]

Why have a simple solution when a complicated one will do?  ;-)

Let's take a page from the Stew Perry contest, and have variable points 
awarded, except instead of for distance (how last-century is THAT?), 
let's make it based upon WHEN the QSO occurred!  There are 30 hours in 
the contest.

How about QSO Point Value = sequential hour of contest?  QSO's made from 
21:00 - 21:59:59 are 1 point, but QSO's made from 22:00 - 22:59:59 are 2 
points, and from 23:00 - 23:59:59 are 3 points, etcetera, until you're 
at Sunday, at 02:00 - 20:59:59, and they're worth a whopping 30 points/QSO!

Alternatively, we could wait until after the logs have been submitted, 
and  QSO's +/- 1 standard deviation of the highest activity hour for 
each day are worth 1 point, those 2 standard deviations away worth 5 
points, and 3 standard deviations away are worth 20 points.  This would 
create a game-within-a-game, where the competitors would not only be 
trying to make as many QSO's as possible, but trying to figure out when 
everyone ELSE was making the majority of their QSO's and try to operate 
outside of that time.

Tongue firmly in cheek (or is it?)...

73,
Steve
NN4X
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On 2/10/2013 4:12 PM, Jimk8mr at aol.com wrote:
> Let's get back to the simple suggestion most recently made by K2AV (with my
>   enthusiastic second):
>