[WT-support] [Fwd: Question about point count in Reg I Fieldday]

[Laurent HAAS - F6FVY]

Hi all

Dominik HB9CZF sent me the following email.

It gives very interesting information and history on the IARU R1 FD.

Thanks to Dominik.

73

Larry - F6FVY

-------- Message original --------
Date : 	Mon, 7 Jun 2010 21:15:11 +0200
De : 	Dominik Bugmann <xxxxxx at hispeed.ch>
Pour : 	<f6fvy at free.fr>


Field Day (FD) started many years ago as National Field Day (NFD) and
was organized by each country independently. Over the years at least the
date and time were aligned in IARU Region 1.

Roughly 5 years ago when I took over the adjudication process in HB9 I
analyzed the rules of the countries taking part. Some FD organizer
honour points for QSO but no multiplier, others work 160-40m only, again
others have different rules between the CW and SSB leg ...

In order to make FD more successful DARC opened their platform for all
countries (exspecially those who have no local FD) and they called it
IARU Region 1 Field Day (good marketing trick). Over the past few
year several local adjudicator (DL, G, HB, I, ON, PA, RA - hopefully
more to join) exchange all logs they receive and adjudicate against
their local rules. Now we can directly compare about 60-70% of all QSO.

After all results are out I take all logs offered by the local
adjudicators and I put together the "internaltion results". This is
basically all logs against DARC rules and you can see how good you were
in an international field. The "international results" are published on
the DARC website.

As you can image all these different local rules is a nightmare for any
contest software author. They usually pick a few popular ones (e.g. DL
and G) and with the updated rules here in HB9 even we got rid of our
proprietary set of points in favour of the scoring system in DL.

There was discussion about additional suffixes and I assume most were
referring to DARC rules. Somehow adjudicator have to figure out who is
/p, /m, ... and who is sitting at home. Therefore, if you want
your sitting-in-tent-and-bitten-by-mosquitoes credited you have to
use (e.g.) /p even if your local license doesn't require.

A few years ago DARC also added a category for fixed station and the
idea is that they only work FD stations. Therefore, fixed-fixed QSO are
0 points.

73 de Dominik, HB9CZF one of the FD-adjudicator and now back to
log-crunching.

PS: I was 5h behind HB9AJ/p over the past weekend and we used Win-Test
4.4 without any hiccup :-)