[PaQSO] bonus points and records?

[Evan Duffey]

The bonus stations accounted for 3.1% of the total score for our effort,
assuming my submitted score was correctly calculated. We expect that our
official score will break the CEN and Portable M/M records without the
bonus station points even part of the equation.

FWIW, part of the reason it may have felt we were so bonus station heavy
this year may have been the fact the FRC guys are all big time contesters,
many were running legal limit, and most have fantastic antennas. I imagine
they went S&P out of a lack of answers to CQ's. Probably most importantly,
they know how to run stations, and quickly.

Evan - N3TWM

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Dave Edmonds <dave at pkministrywebs.com>
wrote:

> I don't remember working many bonus stations in previous years... I was
> introduced to the multi-station concept durin 13 colonies and in 2014 with
> the ARRL Centenial Centennial..remember that crazy December? In 2015, we
> had multiple WW4SF stations all over the place during the SCQP.. Then I
> remember the PAQP that had the multiple stations, could have been 2014 or
> 2015.
>
> Now we're finally used to that bonus station approach... It sure is better
> than having one bonus station worth 100 points...that only operates a few
> hours in the contest... anyone experienced that phenom? I have...
>
> I'm shooting for the WAQPs with 1st place category wins. Still striving for
> the PAQP win..Picked-up NY, Ohio and others but not the elusive PA. We'll
> wait and see.
>
> 73s Dave WN4AFP
>
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Michael Coslo <mjcn3li at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > re. bonus station effect on records..
> >
> > There likely has been a small effect, although since we went to the
> > multiple station bonus stations, we haven’t seen a wholesale falling of
> old
> > records.
> >
> > It is indeed difficult to pin scoring to records - as bizzare as that
> > sounds. Over the years, PQP has had a lot of different scoring schemes.
> >
> > I’m not certain of how many party records will fall this year - its
> > usually a handful every year - but I suspect that a lot of people will
> beat
> > their previous personal best.
> >
> > - 73 Mike N3LI -
> >
> > > On Oct 20, 2017, at 4:23 PM, Dave Edmonds <dave at pkministrywebs.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi PAQPers
> > >
> > > The bonus points for this seems to have been a larger portion of the
> > total
> > > score for many stations (according to 3830scores.com). I thought that
> > the
> > > bonus stations operation went pretty well. I was surprised to hear some
> > > bonus stations working S&P in the pile-ups... seems odd to me....
> > >
> > > I'm curious...
> > >
> > > What effect if any does the variety of bonus station points per year
> have
> > > on scoring records?
> >
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