[UK-CONTEST] QRS Etc

[Donald Field]

Not entirely true Andy. In the recent CW CC event I worked 50 stations in
the first 30 mins, and 35 more in the next hour! I would have given my eye
teeth to work ANYONE, fast, slow, CW-dyslexic, or whatever towards the end.
But the less-experienced ops. do tend to be a bit elusive - they need to
call CQ more, in my view, especially towards the end of these events when
the "big boys" are on the prowl.

73 Don G3XTT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy swiffin" <a.l.swiffin at dundee.ac.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:39 AM
Subject: RE: [UK-CONTEST] QRS Etc


> >
> >
> >> Graham, I don't think that is true. We are all keen to encourage
> newbies and
> >> I think that the large majority of operators are willing to slow
> down to
>
> >Glad to hear the first part, and will agree with the second, but add
> the
> >caveat that until a 'newbie' becomes more proficient, then they will
> >'pad'.....I know also that it is not just 'newbies' who do this,
>
> While its one point per qso there's no incentive to spend time
> searching out weaker and slower stations, you people down in middle
> England can get all you need by working each other at 100 over 9.
>
> How about adding a multiplier into the contest, aka vhf,  say a
> multiplier for locator squares and countries or even prefixes?  Or/And
> something like one point per kilometre for the actual scoring.  This
> would make the contest far more strategic so that the big boys who just
> sit on one frequency working all who come will have a really good reason
> to search around for that elusive multiplier.
>
> Cheers
> Andy
> gm8oeg
> ex A8603
>
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