[PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P

[n3bud]

How about lowering the price of gas and maintenance.  Most likely this and less than perfect band conditions account for the decline.  Since mobiles are already in their own category I question any changes to the scoring system making a difference.
Mike, N3BUD


Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone-------- Original message --------From: Evan Duffey <wxduff at gmail.com> Date: 10/14/2015  10:08 AM  (GMT-05:00) To: n3xls at juno.com Cc: paqso at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P 
A simple adjustment to the rules to encourage rare county activation:

Current Rules:
12. PA Mobile operation Bonus points
12.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each county you operated from where
you made at least 10 QSOs.
13. PA Rover operation Bonus points
13.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each location you operated from
where you made at least 10 QSOs.

New Rules:
12. PA Mobile Bonus Points
12a. Rare Counties: The following ten counties have been determined rare by
the PAQSO party staff (insert 10 rarest counties over the last 5 years).
Add 1000 points to your final score for each rare county where you made at
least 10 QSOs. Add 500 points to your final score for each non-rare county
where you made at least 10 QSOs.
12b. Add 250 points to your final score for each location you operated from
where you made at least 10 QSOs.

Just a suggestion

Evan
N3TWM

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:01 AM, n3xls at juno.com <n3xls at juno.com> wrote:

> Shortening the contest to one day will not ensure more mobile activity.  I
> think relaxing the rules on mobile's and making more incentives to go
> mobile would help.  Rover category took off in recent years and I think
> that took a hit on the  amount of mobiles.
>
> Maybe mobiles need a score formula where the rare counties and number of
> stations worked and number of counties activated all play a part in the
> score.
>
> I am not a mobile op so this is just my 1/2 cents.  I am just following
> the old advice of whats in it for me if I go to the trouble of activating a
> rare county or have a game plan of lighting up several counties.  I know
> for the past 15 year no one would have a sweep with out at least one mobile.
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "John Getz" <johngetz24 at gmail.com>
> To: <paqso at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P
> Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 8:08 PM
>
>
> I concur with Dave, WN4AFP, that there were a lot of out of state stations
> calling CQ for PA contacts.  I was one of the callers.  With this being a
> two day contest, you just run out of PA stations to work and need to
> attract the casual PA ops that only do S&P.  There was also a shortage of
> PA mobiles to work.  I think PA should be a one day contest.  It would be
> easier for the mobile stations so more mobile stations would come out.
> More mobiles to chase means out of station stations don't have to call CQ
> as much as new counties and contacts are always becoming available.  I'd be
> interested in hearing what others think about making PA a one day contest.
>
>
> John Getz
> ​, AD8J​ (Long time PA resident now retired in NC)
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