[PaQSO] Ch-ch-ch-ch-CHANGES!

[Bob Davis]

Okay, that's one Mobile/Rover.  Thanks, Bill!

Anyone hear a fixed/portable station?

Cheers,

Bob

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Gallagher" <wa3ra at yahoo.com>
To: "Bob Davis" <bob at reconstructinghistory.com>; <paqso at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [PaQSO] Ch-ch-ch-ch-CHANGES!


> I was in both on Sunday, late; alnd also had a quick eyeball with another
mobile group in Wayne about two hours earlier...
>
> Bill WA3RA
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bob Davis <bob at reconstructinghistory.com>
> To: paqso at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 12:26:54 PM
> Subject: [PaQSO] Ch-ch-ch-ch-CHANGES!
>
> Sorry, Mr Bowie.  Couldn't resist. ;-)
>
> Now, the meat of it.
>
> Rules changes must be approached just like a sleeping tiger: Cautiously,
and
> with exponentially more thought and planning than action.  Adding another
> category is one thing; changing the scoring structure is another.
>
> Frankly, I dislike the QRP point multiplier rule. While I think there
> *should* be a bonus for QRP operators - the world has too bleedin' many
> people who run legal limit with their good-ol-boys in the next county -
> multiplying the entire points total is, in my not-so-humble opinion,
> excessive.
>
> Now, changing the points from 1, 1.5, and 2 to a non-fractional numerical
> system is bang on.  I prefer N1MM for all of my logging, it won't do
> fractions, and I really, REALLY hate to work out the score after the fact.
> Call me lazy - and I'm certain someone will - but the reason anyone uses
> computer software is to make one's life less complicated.  Having to sit
> down with a calculator and fiddle around with what ought to be perfect
data
> output obviates that.  Further, I really don't want to have multiple
> applications on my hard drive in order to operate.  I want the old Soviet
> model - One Big Thing.  Instead of building many small truck factories,
> they'd build One Big Factory.  I want One Big Program.  N1MM perfectly
> performs this function for every contest in which I operate *except* PAQP,
> and it's all because of the fractional numbers.  I've used WB3W's PAQP
> software for the past several years, and think it's *fabulous*.  The one
> problem I have with it is that it won't output a contest-logging standard
> like Cabrillo (though I'm told it's being worked out).
>
> For me, simple is best.  Most people you ask will tell you: You have to
keep
> it simple around Bob, for "complicated" makes his brain overheat.  In this
> particular case, "simple" means basic station equipment, one software
> application, and above all else whole numbers.
>
> Now that's out of the way, someone tell me if Pike and Wayne were
accessible
> this year.  I'm trying to plan for 2008.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bob NQ3X
>
> http://nq3x.livejournal.com
>
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