[UK-CONTEST] Contest idea "Last 2"

[Andy Cunningham]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Dave Sergeant <dave at davesergeant.com> wrote:

> On 7 Dec 2009 at 22:09, Rob Harrison wrote:
>
> > The idea is you get 3 points for every new "last 2" you work, i.e. the
> > suffix of the locator square, and 1 point for any duplicates. Every
> > contact scores. For instance JO01FO would give you FO, and IO90IR would
> > net IR, and so on. There are 576 possible from AA to XX, so getting
> > duplicates would be fairly rare, and some may have no activity at all
> > normally, but would be easy to activate.
>
> So you arrange a sked with your mate down the road and have quick chats
> every morning and evening - 730 points without doing very much....
>
> An interesting idea but sceptical whether it will achieve much.
>
>
I think the idea was every NEW "last two".  So your mate will only score
once, however often he's worked.

One way it could work is as an additional award across the existing 2m
contests.   Since the committee have the logs adjudicated already doing the
extra scoring would be relatively trivial. Combining an award certificate
"worked 100/250/500+" (in each calendar year) with the UKAC contest would
give the "little guns" something to work towards.


Andy
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