[Elecraft] Contesting; history?

Sat Mar 15 13:44:00 2003

Rolly
My understanding is that things like number of contacts, number of
entities--states/provinces/countries--, member numbers, serial numbers, grid
squares, are all easily
quantifiable.  Duration of QSOs can be a lot fuzzier.
If it's a contest, log entries have to be checked, and these things are
easily totalled
and compared.
73, Bob N6WG
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of ray satel
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 4:03 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Contesting; history?

Hi all

Talking of contest stations...  Am I right in assuming that most / all
"contests" are concerned with the maximum number of contacts and then some
kind of modifiers based on the location of those contacts? Either inclusive
or exclusive.

Can anyone offer an explanation as how (or why) contests evolved into the
format that they have, rather than perhaps "The longest QSO scores the most
points, chronologically or geographically.. " or indeed any other format?

TIA
73 Rolly

_________________________________________________________________
Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger
http://messenger.msn.co.uk

_______________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list: [email protected]
You must be a list member to post to the list.
Postings must be plain text (no HTML or attachments).
See: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
Elecraft Web Page: http://www.elecraft.com