[UK-CONTEST] Contest idea "Last 2"

[Rob Harrison]

Hi Dave,

Ok it needs a bit of tweaking, like duplicate stations don't count, but 
duplicate "last 2" count 1 pt i.e. from another station, this would stop 
abuse.

UKAC is reasonable as it is, we need to find another way of generating 
activity long term, throughout the week. So far I've only had negative 
comments, which is ok if something else is offered.

As I don't seem to have you in my logs for UKAC, is there a reason for this. 
Is Tuesday difficult time wise, or what? It would be interesting to find out 
why people don't come on 144 or other UKAC's.

73

Bob G8HGN



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com>
To: "UK-Contests" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Contest idea "Last 2"


>
> 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.
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
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