11-03-2017, 04:15 PM
And just to stir the proverbial pot a bit...
From WIA news for 12 March 2017 :
"
Last weekend WIA Director Roger Harrison told us of being bowled over with the response to the Wyong Field Day and to the VHF groups meeting he chaired at the HamFest.
He spoke of help to improve amateur antenna masts and towers thru local government
The second hot topic was about VHF-UHF Field Days. No surprises there !
The time has come to consult field day stakeholders about scoring – and it is generally thought that it must come down to either grid-square scoring or distance-based scoring. A binary decision.
As listeners may know, the VHF-UHF Field Days have had both means of scoring since 2014. This was introduced on the principal of – quote – let the market decide ! – end quote. As it happened, field day participants – the market – have by and large decided to have an each-way bet. Many operators enter logs for both scoring divisions; some enter logs for one division in one event, and the other division in the next event. A few operators stick resolutely to one division or the other !
I asked the audience how many had participated in the VHF-UHF Field Days, or had an interest in doing so, and a good proportion of the audience raised their hands. Everybody was keen to discuss it.
The idea arose that maybe there’s a THIRD way.
For a start – the Rover category is necessarily based on grid-square scoring. Secondly, the philosophy underlying VHF-UHF operating is to work the best distances you can under the circumstances facing you. Thirdly, the audience articulated that grid-square scoring is unfair because there is a geographic advantage for regions that are further from the equator and the grid-square are physically smaller. And that’s not ALL the issues !
A lively, robust, but friendly, discussion progressed – cut short only because the session ran out of time.
The general upshot was – perhaps some combined scoring method could be devised that incorporated the best features of the two on the table.
I was bowled over.
The issue of VHF-UHF Field Day scoring will open for consultation on the WIA website soon. Look out for it.
"
One can only assume it will appear here: http://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/
Posted in the interest of finding out that there may be yet another scoring scenario ...
From WIA news for 12 March 2017 :
"
Last weekend WIA Director Roger Harrison told us of being bowled over with the response to the Wyong Field Day and to the VHF groups meeting he chaired at the HamFest.
He spoke of help to improve amateur antenna masts and towers thru local government
The second hot topic was about VHF-UHF Field Days. No surprises there !
The time has come to consult field day stakeholders about scoring – and it is generally thought that it must come down to either grid-square scoring or distance-based scoring. A binary decision.
As listeners may know, the VHF-UHF Field Days have had both means of scoring since 2014. This was introduced on the principal of – quote – let the market decide ! – end quote. As it happened, field day participants – the market – have by and large decided to have an each-way bet. Many operators enter logs for both scoring divisions; some enter logs for one division in one event, and the other division in the next event. A few operators stick resolutely to one division or the other !
I asked the audience how many had participated in the VHF-UHF Field Days, or had an interest in doing so, and a good proportion of the audience raised their hands. Everybody was keen to discuss it.
The idea arose that maybe there’s a THIRD way.
For a start – the Rover category is necessarily based on grid-square scoring. Secondly, the philosophy underlying VHF-UHF operating is to work the best distances you can under the circumstances facing you. Thirdly, the audience articulated that grid-square scoring is unfair because there is a geographic advantage for regions that are further from the equator and the grid-square are physically smaller. And that’s not ALL the issues !
A lively, robust, but friendly, discussion progressed – cut short only because the session ran out of time.
The general upshot was – perhaps some combined scoring method could be devised that incorporated the best features of the two on the table.
I was bowled over.
The issue of VHF-UHF Field Day scoring will open for consultation on the WIA website soon. Look out for it.
"
One can only assume it will appear here: http://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/
Posted in the interest of finding out that there may be yet another scoring scenario ...
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