[CTSARA] Field Day Point Total

Christina Kovacs ckovacs at optonline.net
Thu Jun 30 16:21:54 EDT 2011 

To bad we went over the 500 allowable QSO's for the GOTA tent but I sure 
had a blast (no matter how cold I got in the middle of the night!)


On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:29 PM, O'Connor, Tony wrote:

> We didn't get penalized for going over but we were allowed to count 
> only
> the first 500 QSO's.
> That is, there's a 500-QSO limit for the GOTA station.  We made 611
> QSO's, which is a testament to how much fun everybody was having at 
> the
> GOTA station.  There was a lot of excitement and enthusiasm in the 
> tent
> and we just kept cranking out the QSO's.
> If we had had the flexibility to select the 500 we were going to count
> out of the 611 we made, our score would have been higher.  The rules 
> are
> a little ambiguous on this point, so we asked the ARRL for a
> clarification and made a very strong argument why it would be within 
> the
> rules and in the best interests of amateur radio and Field Day to 
> allow
> us to do so.  But the ARRL said, no, we can count only the first 500
> QSO's.  So that's what we did.
>
> But, again, spectacular job making all the QSO's we did.  It's the 
> first
> time (that anyone involved was aware of) that the SARA GOTA station
> maxed out on QSO's -- not just maxed out, but blew the doors off the
> barn, so to speak.
> Good job Team GOTA!
>
> 73,
> Tony
> KB1SUN
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ctsara-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:ctsara-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Rosca
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 2:11 PM
> To: ctsara at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [CTSARA] Field Day Point Total
>
> I'm confused--was the 611 GOTA QSO too high? Were we not supposed to
> go over 500?
>
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>> From: Jon Perelstein <jon.perelstein at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [CTSARA] Field Day Point Total
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>> Sorry for the delay in getting out our Field Day point totals, but an
> issue
>> arose about scoring.
>>
>> First the good news:  Our final score is 9,816.  That's an 1800 point
>> increase over last year.  The breakdown is given below.
>>
>> Now the bad news:  It should have been 9,936, but the League is
> penalizing
>> us because -- in our desire to introduce ham radio to families (and
>> especially teenagers)  -- we wound up with 611 GOTA QSOs.  We
> certainly
>> won't make the mistake of trying to use the GOTA tent to introduce 
>> ham
>> radio
>> to families (and especially teenagers) next year.
>>
>> QSOs and QSO Points
>> ----------------------------------
>>
>> We operated all radios at under 150 watts, so we get a 2x multiplier
> on our
>> QSOs.  In addition, there is a 2x multiplier over and above the power
>> multiplier for CW and digital QSOs.  Thus, each phone QSO is worth 2
> points
>> and each CW or digital QSO is worth 4 points
>>
>> 2504 3A QSOs, consisting of 1846 phone and 658 CW
>> 500 GOTA QSOs, consisting of 419 phone and 81 digital (the rules cap
> us at
>> 500 points for GOTA QSOs for scoring purposes, that's in the rules 
>> and
> is
>> not an issue)
>>
>> Total phone:   2265 x 2 = 4530
>> Total CW:        658 x 4 = 2632
>> Total DIG:          81 x 4 =  324
>>                      -----------------------
>> Total                              7486
>>                       -----------------------
>>
>> GOTA Bonuses
>> -----------------------
>> GOTA bonus points come from qualified candidates operating at least 
>> 20
> QSOs
>> in the GOTA tent.  Because of the dispute with the League, we were
> able to
>> claim only 440 bonus points (instead of 500).
>>
>> Since we had full-time GOTA Coaching, we can double that to 880
>>
>> Other bonuses:
>> -----------------------
>> 3 stations on emergency power =                 300
>> Media publicity =                                        100
>> Set-up in public place =                               100
>> Information booth =                                     100
>> NTS message to ARRL SM/SEC =               100
>> W1AW Field Day Message =                       100
>> Formal NTS Messages handled (23 mgs) =   100
>> Natural power QSO =                                  100
>> Site Visit by elected official =                       100
>> Site visit by served agency official =              100
>> Educational Activity =                                  100
>> Youth element achieved =                            100
>> Submitted using the on-line ap =                    50
>>
> ---------------------------------
>>                                                                1450
>>
>> Grand Total
>>
>> QSOs:                      7486
>> GOTA Bonus:             880
>> Other Bonuses:         1450
>>                             ------------
>>                                 9816
>>                             ------------
>>
>> 73s
>> Jon
>> WB2RYV
>>
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