[UK-CONTEST] IOTA -" nul points" for Fixed-to-Fixed, pse!

[Rob Harrison]

Hi Paul,

I thought it wouldn't be!

I can see why you need fixed stations to help the island stations to bump up 
their scores, but it seems some fixed stations are just working fixed 
station after fixed station, which seems to defeat the object of the 
contest.

So you're proposing 15 pts for Island to Island, 5 pts Island to 
non-Island(or vice versa) and 1 pt for non-island to non-island?  That seems 
reasonable, you've got to get the fixed stations to go looking for islands, 
rather than just sitting and waiting for the islands to come to them.

Tin hat off, but body armour still on.

73 Bob



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul O'Kane" <pokane at ei5di.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] IOTA -" nul points" for Fixed-to-Fixed, pse!


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rob Harrison" <robharrison at g8hgn.freeserve.co.uk>
>
>> The raison d'etre is in the title, Islands on the Air.
>> So at least one end of the QSO should be an island.
>
> It's not quite as simple as that.  If you're a non-island
> station (say HB9) and you hear a DL or a W4 calling CQ,
> you have no direct way of knowing whether they're on an
> island until you hear the exchange.  Since you don't want
> to miss a possible multiplier, you call anyway.
>
> It's easy for those of us who are already on islands to
> say one end of the QSO should be an island, but what are
> all the non-island stations going to do in-between
> working island stations?  The simple answer is work one
> another.
>
> If the points for non-island to non-island stations
> were to be reduced as already proposed, island stations
> will benefit directly and there is no disadvantage to
> non-island stations because they represent a separate
> entry category.
>
> There is nevertheless, another issue.  The present points
> structure for island stations (15 points for other-island
> QSOs and 3 points for non-islands), is a big disincentive,
> a 5 to 1 ratio, in working non-island stations.  Yet we
> (the islanders) need the others, if only to keep busy -
> we all like to be "wanted".  A possible solution might
> be to increase the points for working non-island stations
> from 3 to 5.
>
> With 1 point for non-island to non-island and 5 points
> for island to non-island, everyone wins.  It gives both
> island and non-island stations a bigger incentive to
> work one another.
>
> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
>
>
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