[CQ-Contest] Poisson d'Avril

Ron Notarius W3WN wn3vaw at verizon.net
Sun Apr 4 01:17:49 EDT 2021


Well Ward, now that you mention it, I didn’t make any QSOs this year.  

Never did send in an entry, though.  Hadn’t gotten a round tuit... too busy not filling out my application to join the Procrastinators Club Of America.  

But there’s always next year.  Plenty of time...

73

> On Apr 3, 2021, at 10:14 PM, Ward Silver <hwardsil at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Safest not to make any and risk a penalty!
> 
> 73, Ward
> 
> On April 3, 2021, at 8:08 PM, Jim Cassidy <jc_ki7y at q.com> wrote:
> 
> So we could possibly have a very slight possible of placing by not making a lot more QSOs?  Would massive amounts of dupes help?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil at gmail.com>
> To: "CQ Contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 3, 2021 3:27:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Poisson d'Avril
> 
>> I made 47,823 QSO's for a score of 2,287,039,329 but I have a feeling
> that isn't enough to win.
>> 
>> 73, Zack W9SZ
> 
> Oh...so sorry...you didn't realize that each additional QSO *reduces* your
> score so you have a final total of 1/2,287,039,329 =
> 0.00000000043724652537.  Better luck next time!
> 
> 73, Ward N0AX
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