[CQ-Contest] NAQP scoring

[Hank Greeb]

Hurrah for "blood and guts" operation!   Yes, by all means, we should, 
no, we MUST penalize folks for the errors of their ways.  Lettuce go all 
the way, have "monitors" at all the "big guns" stations to make sure 
they don't do anything dastardly like running 1 minute over the allotted 
time, or cranking up the power to 2.5 KW (slightly above the 100 watts 
permitted by the rules), etc.

And, we should discourage any newcomers, particularly in the CW NAQP 
because they might not be sending "cut numbers, compressed code" and 
other things the "real contest ops" do - and they might be sending at 
(horrors, all horrors) at well below 35 WPM.  And they might even be 
running QRP, which slows down the "blood and guts" operators.

I've scoured the contest calendar, and can find no place where "blood 
and guts" is encouraged, so we must be the leaders!  After all, 
contesting in particular and ham radio in general is attracting 
membership by leaps and bounds, so we need an elitist contest.  Cull out 
the riff raff, they're not worth cultivating in our elitist "Party."

72/73 de n8xx Hg
QRP >99.44% of the time

On 1/10/2013 12:00 PM, K4RO Kirk Pickering <k4ro at k4ro.net> wrote:
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:26:47 -0600
> From: K4RO Kirk Pickering <k4ro at k4ro.net>
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] NAQP scoring
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> That is correct Bob. There are no penalties for busted QSOs in the NAQP. They are removed from your log without penalty. The only penalty is that you lose the QSO. The contest managers and log checkers discussed this recently, and we decided to leave it this way for one more year. The NAQP began as more of a "friendly" event (hence the word "Party" in the name) but it has evolved over the years into a fairly competitive contest. Some of us feel that some type of penalty scheme needs to be implemented, if for no other reason than to encourage accuracy proficiency. We will re-visit this rule again next year.
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> 73, Kirk K4RO