[Elecraft] EQ Party or Contest?

Wed Mar 5 14:10:01 2003

Good ideas. We should postpone those for after the contest.  Suggesting
of changing the rules 3 days before the contest is ridiculous.

It seems like we need an EQ Contest and EQ rag chew QSO party in the
future to support everyone's desires.

Andreas, KU7T

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Rock [mailto:[email protected]]=20
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:59 AM
To: Max Moon; Elecraft
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] EQ Party or Contest?

I agree.  I normally work people for twenty minutes or more and some for
longer.  I just completed a QSO that lasted an hour and a half.  Very
enjoyable.  Now I feel I=20
know that person a lot better than a simple exchange of RST and
callsigns would allow.  How about we modify the rules for this contest
to reflect the QSOs encouraged=20
annotation?
   Kevin.   KD5ONS

3/4/2003 11:02:44 PM, "Max Moon" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Rod asks a very good question: is the EQP a Party or a Contest? The EQP
>itself has an identity problem. Rule #1 is, "Object: To work as many
other
>Elecraft owners [contest!] and to have fun doing it [party!]."
>
>To make it more mixed up, Rule #8A (there are only 8 rules) says, "QSOs
are
>encouraged." But they aren't. It is obvious from the scoring system
that
>maximum number of contacts is encouraged, not QSOs (I take QSO to mean
>chatting with somebody, not completing a contest exchange in 40 or 45
>seconds & calling QRZ?)
>
>What about changing the rules next year so EQP can be either a contest
or a
>party, or both? One way to accomplish that would be to allow points per
QSO
>to keep growing the longer the QSO continues. For example, I have the
choice
>of taking my 5 watts and working, in an hour, let's say, 40 EQPers
(that may
>be an infelicitous acronym...;-) to get 120 points. And the next hour I
>could have 5 QSOs averaging 8 minutes each and earn the same 3 points
per
>QSO plus maybe 3 points per minute of continuing QSO after the first
minute.
>Thus, the true "QSOs are encouraged" party operator would receive (3 x
5) +
>3(7 + 7 + 7 + 7 + 7) =3D 15 + 105 =3D 120 points (instead of 15 with =
the
current
>system).
>
>It would be like valuing quality as much as, if not more than,
quantity.
>Like doing more with less... Why does that sound familiar??
>
>72s,
>Max, k0max

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