[PaQSO] Idea

[n3ntj at earthlink.net]

I would think that would be a scoring fiasco for the operator, his scoring software,
and those compiling the final scores.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Goody K3NG <k3ng at qrpis.org>
>Sent: Apr 8, 2007 2:42 PM
>To: PA QSO Party <paqso at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: [PaQSO] Idea
>
>I have an idea for bonus points.  One of the hallmarks of the PA QSO 
>Party is our friendliness.  We've often commented this is one of the 
>few, if only contests in which someone will ask a station holding a 
>frequency if they can work a county that was just worked by the station 
>calling CQ.  How about we offer bonus points to the station calling CQ 
>on the frequency who graciously allows another station to do this?
>
>Have the rules as follows:
>
>- 200 points per occurrence, up to four times during the Party
>- No staged/pre-arranged QSOs allowed (this would be considered cheating)
>- The station getting the points must have been calling CQ on a 
>frequency and the station asking to work the county must not have worked 
>that county yet during the party
>- The station that was calling CQ gets the bonus points
>- After the requesting station works the county, the station that was 
>calling CQ previously continues to call CQ on that frequency
>
>For CW operations, we could designate a Q signal for requesting to work 
>a station.
>
>Such a bonus points opportunity would give everyone an opportunity to be 
>a bonus station once or twice during the Party without using special 
>callsigns or causing confusion.  It would also emphasize or showcase one 
>of the unique practices that has made the PA QSO Party what it is.
>
>73
>Goody
>K3NG
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