[Elecraft] Re: Your EQP Suggestions - why have scores?

Wed Mar 12 12:07:00 2003

Good mornin' Ken,

Scores are an incentive to keep people hanging in there; 
they show 'progress'. Other incentives were: Work the FT's, 
Work towards the Elecraft Century Club and W.A.S. certificates.
I think I would like to see participation certificates awarded to 
everyone who made, say, 100 contacts. It is true that all these 
things are artificial inducements to get the ops on the air  - it would
be unfortunate if you gave a party and no body came!

I am sure there are other promotional inducements we might consider.
This being the first running of the EQP, it would probably benefit from
a little tweaking.

73 de Jerry/k6iii

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:19:52 -0600 "Kenneth E. Harker"
<[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:26:01AM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> > Ken,
> > Thanks for your input and participation in the EQP.
> > All comments will be reviewed in the 'committee' in
> > hopes of making a better EQP next time.
> > 
> > I agree that the scores seem so puny for the effort involved!
> > But then, this was not billed as a 'contest'. I prefer to call it
> > an 'activity'. Pretty laid-back, I thought.
> 
> 
> If it's not a contest, then why are you keeping score and awarding 
> prizes?
> 
>  
> > 73 de Jerry/k6iii
> > 
> > ============================
> > From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <[email protected]>
> > My suggestion: simply put QRP and low power into separate classes 
> so
> > they're
> > not competing against each other, and make the scoring QSOs x # 
> of
> > unique Elecraft serial numbers worked per band per mode.  (And 
> maybe
> > explicitly  say that K1 #123 is not the same as K2 #123 - they 
> each count
> > as unique serial  numbers.)
> 
> -- 
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