[VHFcontesting] Thoughts on the Digital Modes and VHF Contesting

[Mark Spencer]

Hi Steve:

My take on the rules is that sending "/R" is a requirement for Rovers.
Hence my interest in the "/R" issue vis a vis me using digital modes while Roving.

73

Mark S
VE7AFZ


mark at alignedsolutions.com
604 762 4099

Mark Spencer

Aligned Solutions Co.
mark at alignedsolutions.com
604 762 4099
> On Jan 23, 2018, at 9:33 PM, Steve Stahl <ke7ihg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well here is crazy idea.....If your a rover and using FT8, just use it as
> would normally would and have it count.
> Forget the /r for all digital contacts.
> You could work stations  multiple times since your in a different grid
> square.
> I see the dupe problem but I think it could work.
> 
> Steve K7SWS
> 
> On Jan 23, 2018 21:21, "Alan Larson" <wa6azp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  It is part of the principle of the contests that we give more multipliers
> for making more difficult contacts.  We get a few for local contacts, and
> more for the distant ones that require more skill.
> 
>  FT8 (and some of the other digital modes) makes the distant contacts and
> large number of multipliers much easier.
> 
>  Perhaps we should disallow using those digital contacts for multiplier
> credit.  You still could get QSO points for the contact, but to get the
> multiplier for the distant contact, you need to use the more difficult
> mode.  This suggestion is unlikely to fly in this form, but perhaps as an
> alternate, limit the number of multipliers from digital to 5 or 10 percent
> of the total multipliers on a band.  Say if you get 30 multipliers on 6
> meters, you can only claim 3 of them from digital contacts.  That way, it
> will allow digital for the really hard ones, but the ones that can be done
> on traditional modes would be.
> 
>  Or perhaps having digital contests or entries be separate from the
> non-computer processed modes.
> 
>        Alan
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