DATE: October 2016
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Analysis of Scoring Systems for UKAC Contests (by Andy G4PIQ)
Many of you will be remember that the
RSGB VHF
Contest Committee recently asked you some questions about your use of
logging software in the UK Activity Contests. Thank you very much to
the 200+ people who took the time to respond to that survey. It was to
give us some guidance on where we should focus our efforts while
looking at scoring systems for the UKAC contests.
I
promised you that we would release the results of our study into
scoring systems by the end of September, and I’m pleased to announce
that they now are available for download at http://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/information/Scoring-Review-Output-Issue-1.pdf
What
we’ve released today is just the study on scoring systems – the full
rules consultation for the 2017 series of VHF contests is expected to
come next week. That consultation exercise will provide the formal
means of providing feedback on the proposals which we’re making in the
report, but in the meantime, I’m hoping to see a positive debate on the
reflectors and social media.
The study has taken a great
deal of work and I’d ask that you take the time to read the report
carefully and consider the conclusions. We’ve worked very hard to make
this a purely facts based analysis of the situation. I’d particularly
like to thank all the volunteers who helped generate this study for
their commitment – it is very much appreciated.
For those
of you attending the RSGB Convention this year, I will be there on the
Sunday and welcome the opportunity to discuss this further with some of
you face-to-face.
73,
Andy Cook, G4PIQ
Chair RSGB VHF Contest Committee
g4piq@btinternet.com
RSGB CONTESTS IN 2016 (by Ian G0FCT)
The full 2016 RSGB contest calendars and rules for all RSGB contests are available here (HF) and here (VHF)
OTHER HF CONTESTS IN 2016 (by Ian G0FCT)
For more data on a wide range HF contests, the SM3CER and WA7BNM websites are very useful sources of information.
Another useful source of HF contest information is on the website of HB9DHG which can be reached by going to http://www.hb9dhg.ch, and selecting "Contest Calendar".
VHF LIVE - CLAIMED SCORES (by Miha S51FB, ZRS (S5) VHF Manager)
Maybe you already know the initiative of Slovenian (S5) VHF community? If not than here are some basic info:SLOVHF web page http://slovhf.net/en/ is dedicated to VHF/UHF/SHF.
C'TEST subpage is dedicated to contesting where I would like to point out two sub-items:
Claimed Score http://slovhf.net/en/claimed/ is dedicated for real time (during the contest) an post entry publishing of VHF/UHF/SHF contest scores and S5 VHF manager = Contest log management where after the contest participants upload their contest log and at the end this page is dedicated for log evaluation and publishing of unofficial and official contest results.
At the botom of Real time Claimed Score page http://slovhf.net/en/claimed/ you will find additional link "How to enter data" http://slovhf.net/en/kako-lahko-vpisem-podatke/ .
Up to know automatic real time score publishing is possible by following contest software: VHFCtest4WIN (author S52AA), N1MM and N1MM+, TR4W and Win-Test. DxLog (Author 9A5K) will be supported in next future.
That's all for this month
73, Ian Pawson G0FCT
Chair, RSGB Contest Support Committee