[VHFcontesting] New proposed VHF Contest rules

[Michael Clarson]

Peter: My statement using a grid square on the moon was tongue  in cheek. I
keep forgetting the cardinal rule of the internet: Things said in jest will
be taken literally, even if followed up with a smiley face.. My point was
that on EME, grids 8000 (or more) miles away are just as accessible as
neighboring grids with nearly the same effort. vs. terrestrial propagation
where you'll never hear that station 8000 miles away on UHF.I suspect the
prohibition against EME would be how it would skew distance scoring. It'd
be nice if EME could be accomodated without blowing the non EME stations
out of the water,. --73, Mike, WV2ZOW

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Peter Laws <plaws0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Michael Clarson <wv2zow at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > put there because of Distance scoring. With EME, the effort to work a
> > station in the next or even in one's own grid is pretty much the same as
> > working one 8,000 miles away. Perhaps a maximum distance score per
>
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> You're clearly unfamiliar with distance scoring:  The distance is
> calculated between your grid and the other stations grid, not the
> distance your signal travels, regardless of mode.
>
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> The Makrothen contest has been run this way for a long time:
>
> http://home.arcor.de/waldemar.kebsch/The_Makrothen_Contest/The_Makrothen_Contest.html
>
> I agree with another poster that said there needs to be a commonly
> agreed upon calculation for calculating distance between two 6-char
> grid-locs, though, given that different geodetic systems.  Pick one
> and make sure everyone uses the same mathematic algorithm and be done
> with it.  Necessary, but not a big deal.
>
>
> --
> Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!
>