[UK-CONTEST] 70 MHz Trophy

[Martin Hallsworth]

Hmm,
I know I how frustrating it is that some station you can hear is working
lots of DX with good signal strengths but you can not (or only just hear)
The same problem exists for 2M with the Es contacts and yes I have worked Es
DX with 10W got better report than the station 20 miles away with 400W +
bigger array.

The PW QRP use 1Pt /QSO + multipliers based up on Locators
This works OK 
1Pt/Km  encourages the DX hunt 
Radial Ring how would you allocate points per ring?
1,2,3,4,5,etc. as the radius increases ? not much better than 1pt/Km
or
some thing like first ring at 100Km Radius = 1pt, 2nd @ 250km = 3pt,
3rd @ 500Km = 5pt , 4th @ 800Km = 7pt, 5th @ 1250km = 8pt,
6th @ 1600km = 9pt any contact over 2000km = 10pt
that might encourage more general activity and still promote DX hunting
during contests

I do favour multipliers though either based on DXCC or locator fields (IO83,
JO25,IN89 etc for VHF and up)
6m & 4m are in an area of the frequency spectrum where many sorts of
propagation effect the distance a signal can successfully be returned to
earth over, so what ever scoring system is in place it will inevitably not
be the best for some on based up on their location and the location of the
anomaly that is the cause of the propagation.


Just some quick thoughts for a Saturday morning 
Martin
73 De G1GYC
  


-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ken Eastty
Sent: 23 July 2010 22:43
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 70 MHz Trophy

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
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