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

[Dez Watson]

Hear hear.

The IOTA contest is flourishing very well and the organisers should be 
very careful tinkering around
with the scoring. I do not see anything wrong with the current points 
allocation. There is already the 5:1
ratio incentive for non-island stations to hunt around for IOTA mults. 
Drive the non-island station away
and the contest will surely suffer. And as an island station there are 
occasions when you may need to run
3 pointers.

73

Dez Watson



cris at gm4fam.plus.com wrote:
> I think if you give only one point for non-island > non-island QSOs they
> will think twice before taking part; unless they are recently licenced the
> 'thrill' of S&P for only Island stations would soon diminish.  If I am
> wrong and non-island activity remains high then the extra incentive to
> work 15 pointers will only increase the pileups more on Island stations
> (and there were some IOTAS active in this year's contest who frankly were
> struggling to cope with the volumes, let alone any increase).
>
> But overall the issue seems to revolve around how to discourage (or
> exclude) non-IOTA stations and I am really struggling to see why,
> especially when the Contest is a) so well supported by IOTAs and non-IOTAs
> alike and b) the results have a wide range of categories for everyone.
>
> Granted the 2010 event was pretty packed with stations on 20 but it won't
> always be like that; hopefully from 2011/12 onwards we will have better 15
> and 10m condx with a commensurate spread of activity - this will at least
> give more of a chance to the 100 watt IOTA stations to enjoy some
> contesting without being QRM'd and an even greater challenge for all
> participants.
>
> As an aside if non-IOTA stations are discouraged / excluded how many of
> those potential entrants will not be able to also apply for award credits
> via contest log submissions to the IOTA website? This will only be to the
> detriment of the whole IOTA programme itself.
>
> 73 de
> Cris GM4FAM



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