[UK-CONTEST] Contest idea "Last 2"

[Rob Harrison]

Hi Andy,

That's more like it, but it still leaves the gaps between contests. Could it 
not run 365?

Bob G8HGN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Cunningham" <andycwb at gmail.com>
To: "Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com>
Cc: "UK-Contests" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Contest idea "Last 2"


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> 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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