[UK-CONTEST] A contest suggestion.

[G3WVG]

Things have been pretty exciting and cutting edge  on UK-Contest lately.....Everything from "how to make a dipole" to "how to design a new contest."

Lets face it ..Contests haven't changed much since they were invented.  Take the total number of QSOs and multiply by another number to come up with a score. and er.. thats it.  It's a winning formula of course ..we love contests.......or rather ...we love some of  them.  Do we really want to keep re-inventing the wheel and keep devising more of the same.?

Of course computers have made contesting more fun ..they've taken the donkeywork out of it. But all they have really done is relace or enhance  an existing mechanical process.  We haven't yet harnessed their networking potential for contesting except through cluster spots
I could easily be a lone voice ..but I would be delighted if our National Society could lead the way and develop an event with an on-line scoring system so that we see everyones realtime score as the contest progresses.

I'm pretty sure it would be feasible , but sadly I'm not bright enough to know how it could be acheived.  I know a lot of people will whinge and say what about this and what about that.  But it will certainly happen one day . 
Why can't we be first?

73 Ian... G3WVG