[UK-CONTEST] 70 MHz Trophy

[Ken Eastty]

I completely disagree (especially as I don't work 6m & have no interest 
in the band apart from very occasional /P operation when on holiday).
I really don't care whether there's an SpE opening or not during a 4m 
contest and I don't think that it makes sense to score points/km for SpE 
QSO's. We don't score in this way on the HF bands so why do so on VHF? 
It's easy to work DX via E's if you happen to be in the right spot even 
20W of FM to an indoor vertical dipole can get you 1500 points or more, 
try working even 100kM under average tropo conditions with that sort of 
set up. Even with 160W of SSB and a big beam working 500km under average 
tropo conditions can be difficult but still only gets you 500 points.
I think that there should be a limit to the maximum score for long 
distance QSO's via E's (or F2 if the MUF ever gets high enough again) 
perhaps it's time to go back to radial ring scoring.
Discuss?

73...

Ken

G3LVP


> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:26:20 +0100
> From: John Wilson<uk-contest at grebe.plus.com>
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 70MHz trophy contest
>
>
> The best way to get this contest into the optimum period for Es without
> extra congestion in the calendar, would be to adopt my suggestion that I
> put forward last year and run it concurrently with or as part of the 6m
> Trophy contest.  If it stays independent then I think I prefer this
> years date to the August one as the chances of Es are undoubtedly a bit
> higher.
>
> 73 John G3UUT