[ILQSO] High power/low power categories?

[Hank Greeb]

Power level multiplier  1000/actual power output.

Or, do like Field Day, 1x for >200 watts, 2x for 5 to 200 watts, and 5x 
for <5 watts.

But, "good" contesters running 100 watts can make somewhat over 75% as 
many contacts as a similarly equipped (antenna wise) "full gallon" 
station.  Look at the records from the Ohio QSO Party - K2KW

Single-Op Low    K8O (K2KW @ N0FW)  244,530in 2009
Single-Op Hi     K8O (K2KW @ N0FW)  289,114in 2010

There's not an actual comparison, because propagation conditions on two 
consecutive years aren't equal, but it's about as close as you cn get.  
Kenny, K2KW, who is on the Ohio QSO party organizing team, sez he won't 
try for the QRP score because it might look bad that he has all the all 
time records for the three power categories.

Based on Field Day results, IF you'd have 5X for QRP, like in Field Day, 
a well equipped QRP station would run rings around all other power levels.

72/73 de n8xx Hg
QRP >99.44% of the time

On 9/4/2012 9:01 PM, Bob Burns W9RXR wrote:
> At 01:52 PM 9/4/2012, Danny Pease wrote:
>
>> Using a power multiplier is a possibility that would not increase
>> the number of awards.
> I don't currently have a dog in this hunt. Maybe someday, but not now.
>
> That said, if you make a class or category for every possible mode or style of operation, then you risk issuing a lot of awards to people who didn't have much real competition.
>
> A sports car club I used to belong to got this way. They had well over 30 classes depending on type of car or preparation level. At some races, some of those classes might only have one or two entrants. Yeah, sure, you can say you won. But, if you didn't beat anybody, what did you prove?
>
> Coming up with a multiplier system seems to make more sense than adding classes or categories. Of course, a few folks will argue that the multiplier isn't fair to their chosen operating mode or capabilities. <grin>
>
> Bob...