AD6E/KH6TU wrote:

Will DXCC and other awards now splinter and have 100 mode variations? Matrixed with power variations? How far should this go?

And time variations. . WAC in under 30 seconds? K6UM told me last week that he made 6m WAC in one day!! I think he has a special certificate noting that accomplishment. I guess partly EME?

As you note, the possibilities are nearly infinite.

For me, I got WAC and WAS as a novice and quit there. Likewise DXCC and WAZ soon thereafter. . no endorsements or expansions. For me, most of these special awards concoctions are variations of what I did in Jr and Sr high school with enthusiasm and determination. But that was then. However I have respect for those who achieve these special accomplishments. I'm just too busy with wine, astronomy and H-D projects around the farm.

Maybe an EME DXCC interests me, going back to the original point of this thread, N6JV's very notable recent accomplishment.

And I just answered a JA card request for the "all suffixes" (JCA) award. . i.e. every combination of A-Z, AA-ZZ, AAA-ZZZ in. No award has been given. There are 18,278 combinations. I am happy to supply ZFO. Is it the Mt. Everest of ham awards? The highest worked and confirmed, as of 2016 is apparently 15,397. The station asking for the card had 10,057 last year.

73 Bill n6zfo

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Alan Maenchen <ad6e@arrl.net> wrote:

Rick, I like that analogy :-)

I certainly don't want to detract from Norm's achievement (or Taylor's) but my question is:

Will DXCC and other awards now splinter and have 100 mode variations? Matrixed with power variations? How far should this go? I could come up with some new ones. There are millions of possibilities. I note that the one I've used in designing commercial microwave radios .. quadrature partial response .. hasn't hit the ham bands ... yet.

In contesting, I'm usually on the side of minimizing the number of categories. I see this in a similar way. How about having separate logging category for high speed CW vs medium speed, vs low speed? Or DXCC all on USB and a separate category for LSB and another for AM? How about DSB?

OK, I realize that's getting pretty far off the deep end, but I hope you see my point. Mode accuracy in LoTW isn't DXCC, That's also just an analogy. As a contest administrator (past and now again present), I see the amount of work involved in keeping track of all that stuff. Work is a four letter word.

73, Alan AD6E / KH6TU

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Rick WA6NHC <wa6nhc@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, flavor of the month, but it's cherry chocolate brownie walnut deluxe! WITH fudge swirls ;-) Instant winner.

My point was more of logging accuracy, for the moment JT9 has worked to satisfy LOTW, but it's inaccurate.

Rick nhc/7

On 7/24/2017 2:49 PM, Alan Maenchen wrote:

I'm curious why FT8 needs special acknowledgment. There must be 100 different types of digital modulation out there now. Some work better than others depending on conditions. FT8 seems simply the "digital" flavor of the month.

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