[VHFcontesting] Thoughts on the Digital Modes and VHF Contesting

[Steve Stahl]

Mark
 I do get your point.....and I  don't understand why we can't add the 2
extra characters to the string.

Steve K7SWS

On Jan 23, 2018 22:02, "Mark Spencer" <mark at alignedsolutions.com> wrote:

> 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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