[UK-CONTEST] AFS scoring

[Don Field]

And back before 76 it was on topband and there was no concept of adding
individual scores. It was a single call from the club station. But, no, it
wasn't distance-related.

Don G3XTT

On 8/4/06, QUENTIN COLLIER <q.g.collier at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Alex,
>
>   Going from memory here, but as I recall it AFS took on its current form
> in 1976. Up till that point the AFS format was based on the now defunct
> Short Wave Magazine's MCC (Magazine Club Contest). This was run for 4 hours
> on each of 2 consecutive days (Saturday and Sunday). Neither MCC nor AFS (as
> it then was) were particularly flourishing. The move to the current AFS
> format really transformed things. There was never a distance element
> involved.
>
>   A few points of detail:
>   * AFS was initially CW only - SSB came along quite a lot later
>   * timing was initally 1 - 4 clock time, but moved back by an hour to, I
> think, give the GMs a better crack at the propogation
>   * for the first few years (subsequently dropped) club stations had to
> send "AFS" after the serial number, and there was a points differential of
> 10 points for stations sending AFS and 1 point for those not doing so.
> Interestingly (and perhaps surprisingly) our club found that the time saved
> by not having to send "AFS" meant that there was a QSO count hike of 5 or
> more.
>
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>
>   73,
>
>
> Quin G3WRR
>
> Alex GM3ZBE <alex at gm3zbe.plus.com> wrote:
>   Hi
>
> Just curious. but I don't know the history of the AFS contests or even
> when
> they started, has there ever been a distance element to the scoring?
>
> Alex
>
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