[NLRS] Goals for 2002 10 GHz Cumulative

[Gary M Danelius]

For the rules see QST July 2002 p. 96. You could also
look at the ARRL web site under contests.

Contest dates: Saturday and Sunday August 17 and 18, 
and September 21 and 22. Perhaps operation at Lake 
Superior the first weekend. No plans yet.

Times: a maximum of 24 hours each weekend between 
the hours of 6 AM local time Saturday and 12 Midnight Sunday.
Listening time counts as operating time.

The exchange is your 6 digit grid square. For example EN34jv.

Scoring: Jon has it correct. 100 points for each unique station 
 that you contact during the contest. You can work the same station
 repeatedly, provided that one of the two stations has moved at least
 10 miles. You score 1 point for each kilometer of distance between 
 the two stations. Total score is the total of all distance points
 plus the total unique station points.

We will have to setup something for the WBFM only ops.
The distance we are now getting on narrow band make it
hard to keep the WBFM ops busy all the time. More discussion
is needed on this part of the contest operations. I would like
to hear from the rest of you who would like to get of for the
contest. There are many WBFM units and a few narrow band
units that can be loaned out. 

For more information, contact me and I will forward some of our
past e-mails. I don't know if the NLRS has an e-mail archive, but
if it exists, check there for last years results. There will also be
more discussion on this reflector as the contest dates get
closer.

73, Gary  WB0LJC

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:34:58 -0500 jcplatt1@mmm.com writes:
>
>Gary, you may want to refresh us on the rules ..... or point us to 
>where
>they are, regarding:
>
>* Contest Date(s)
>* Time.
>* Contest exchange.
>* How points are generated & scored.
>
>As I recall, there are 100 points for a unique contact (per rig - 
>call) and
>1 point per Km ?   Perhaps there may be some strategy around getting
>together sometime in one location to work all the WBFMers (100 pts), 
>then a
>different strategy to generate more pts for those with narrow band
>equipment related to working distance.
>
>Just a thought.
>
>73, Jon
>W0ZQ

>                                                                
>                      Gary M Danelius                                  
>                                                                
>                      <wb0ljc@juno.com>        To:       
>nlrs@mailman.qth.net                                                   
>       
>                                               cc:       (bcc: Jon C. 
>Platt/US-Corporate/3M/US)                                        
>                      07/18/02 03:15 AM        Subject:  [NLRS] Goals 
>for 2002 10 GHz Cumulative                                       
>
>Hi all.
>
>Here are some goals that we can try to reach during the
>upcoming cumulative contest.
>
>1. Get everyone with operational equipment, WBFM or NB,
>     to put it on the air for a few hours.
>
>2. Have enough operators to put every one of the loaner rigs
>    that we have on the air. Between us there are quite a few
>    extra WBFM rigs. We may need some extra promotion here.
>    A rough guess is that there are 16 NB units and 17 or more
>    WBFM units. That's a lot of uniques.
>
>3. Get everyone who operates to send in a log. We had 18 stations
>    on the air last year, only 12 sent in logs. We still had 10% of 
>the
>    total entries in the contest.
>
>4. Get 20 + logs sent in from MN. See #3 and 4.
>
>5. Increase the number of long contacts, 100 kM+, 20 or more, and
>     make some contact that are 200kM or longer.
>
>6. Two days of operation across Lake Superior, with 11 sites
>     worked on the MN side.
>
>7. 200 contacts during the two weekends. This may seem like a lot, but
>    Lenny and I had 100 last year and Bob and Donn were over 80.
>    If we can operate for two days at Lake Superior with 11 operating
>    locations along the North shore, and if we have 4 operators on 
>each
>    side, we can have 176 contacts (11 x 2 =22. 22 x 4 = 88. 88 x 2 =
>176).
>    That still leaves the second weekend to get to 200. A total around
>200
>    should get everyone in the top 10 for QSOs. Maybe we can't get in
>    the top 10 in total score, but we can still make an impression.
>
>8. 10,000+ point total. If we can make all the contacts listed in #7, 
>a
>two
>    day total of over 13,000 should be doable (1600 pts per person per
>day).
>
>What are your thoughts?
>
>73, Gary  WB0LJC
>
>


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