[VHFcontesting] A wild Idea to Fix Contest Activity

[k3sk at buckwalter.co]

Bob,

I like it.


de K3SK
Dave Buckwalter
FM07 – Farmville VA



-----Original Message-----
From: Bob, W3IDT <w3idt at comcast.net> 
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2022 6:52 PM
To: k3sk at buckwalter.co; n7lq at xmtservices.net; vhfcontesting at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] A wild Idea to Fix Contest Activity

An extended version of this proposal - multiple contacts / band and differential points / mode - has been circulated and discussed on this and other forums for the past two to three years.

A formal proposal was submitted by me to the ARRL Contest Advisory Committee (CAC) in September 2021.

The text of that proposal is attached as a PDF.

.......
. Robert F. Teitel, W3IDT
.
. w3idt at comcast.net
. w3idt at arrl.net
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On 1/13/2022 5:00 PM, Shawn Tayler wrote:
> Dave,
> Interesting proposal.
> Would this then have the band multiplier applied to the point total, 
> e.g. analog a digital contacts on 6M would give 3 points (your example 
> of 1 for Dig and 2 for analog) multiplied by 1 and say 3 points for 
> similar on 1296 would give 12 points (3 points for contacts times the 
> 4 points per Q)?
> Shawn
> 
> On Thu, 2022-01-13 at 08:54 -0500, k3sk at buckwalter.co wrote:
>> Although the VHF/UHF contest survey is over, I just had an idea that
>> couldresolve the FT8 (digital) dominance during the contest.   I just
>> wish I hadthought of this when I did the survey.     My idea would
>> require a change inthe scoring method and the allow multiple contacts 
>> with the same station.Multipliers would remain the same.
>> Here's the scoring change proposal ---
>> 1 point for each 2-way digital QSO (FT8, MSK, Q65, etc..) 2 points 
>> for each analog QSO (SSB/CW) And, the biggest change would be to 
>> allow two QSOs per band with
>> eachstation.  One Digital and one analog.    Digital would be
>> regardless ofwhich digital mode used and the analog would be SSB, CW 
>> or cross modeSSB/CW.
>> I think this change could provide the incentive to get the crowd off 
>> of theFT8 frequencies and back up on the phone/CW portion of the band 
>> and mighteven boost the contest activity.
>>
>> de K3SKDave BuckwalterFM07 - Farmville VA
>>
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