[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 7/8/06 8:29:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Field Day rules should change to allow a CW
station to operate QRP and get the added score for being QRP, with
another station working SSB at 1500 watts who get the usual 1 point,
per contact.
It's not about mode-vs.-mode. It's about being able to mix various
power levels in the same group.
Not sure who to write and ask for the change.
ARRL Contest Committee. Also put it in the Soapbox comments on the
ARRL website.
But it has to be presented the right way. CW-vs.-SSB isn't the right
way, because non-phone modes already get double the points.
I would say this:
One of the main purposes and core values of Field Day is diversity.
The rules and scoring methods support that, by rewarding many
different Amateur Radio activities with multipliers and bonus points.
But in the area of power level, strict conformity is imposed on
multitransmitter Field Day groups. By making the most powerful
transmitter the power level of the whole group, the incentive to
diversify operations by power level is eliminated. This is contrary to
the spirit of the event!
Before 1971, multitransmitter FD groups could claim different power
multipliers for different rigs. According to the QST announcement of
the time, this rule was changed to simplify the reporting and log
keeping. Considering how much the rules have changed over the years,
and how much of the logging and reporting has been computerized, the
rules should be changed again to allow different power multipliers for
different band/modes.
If enough of us write to the ARRL Contest Committee with words like
that, we might be successful.
73 de Jim, N2EY
Your right Jim. I will write and be clear that I mean in the same FD
group. The Radio Club I belong to is like 99.9% of all the others. Most
Hams like SSB. A small vocal group likes CW. So it splits our club. The
CW lovers go to their own FD and run QRP. The rest go to the Club FD and
work SSB. If we have diversity in power then the two groups can work
together.
73 Karl K5DI
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