[UK-CONTEST] RSGB 80mCC DATA Contests

[Peter Bowyer]

On 05/05/2009, Ian White GM3SEK <gm3sek at ifwtech.co.uk> wrote:
> Steve Knowles wrote:
> >Examination of the April entries for the 80mCC DATA contests reveals a
> >disturbing number of entries where PSK QSOs have been logged as 'RY'.
> >PSK and RTTY contacts no longer score the same points in this event and
> >logs cannot be properly scored if the correct mode is not indicated.
> >
>
> "PSK and RTTY contacts no longer score the same points"
>
> But what points *do* they score? What is the optimum strategy to win?
> The answer is: nobody knows!
>
> Because of the so-called "normalization" procedure, the optimum balance
> of QSOs between RTTY and PSK will depend on the final adjudicated scores
> of the leading stations on the two modest. For example, if there turns
> out to be a runaway leader on RTTY but not on PSK, the balance tilts in
> favour of making more PSK contacts - but there is no way to know that
> while you're actually *doing* the contest. This makes the overall winner
> into something of a lottery.

Not really - one can study prior results and optimise ones activity
accordingly. The development of tactics like this makes it much more
fun!

Peter G4MJS


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