HS4 Contest System in 2017 ( by Chris 50HS5873)
01 Contest duration, number of contests each year, part 2
48hour contests - continued. So we could have either 5 such contests a year ("4 SEASONS" with countries as a multiplier and LNDX WPX with prefixes) or 4 contests (where LNDX WPX held in mid-November would also count as Autumn:-)
24hour contests should be designed as the contests preffering a certain territory - thay may a combination of general points for distance with additional points for the area and the multiplier can also be combined (i.e. democratic "countries" plus specific "states, provinces" - as in NA HF contest). According to such rules we know that CIS & Baltic (or CIS & East Europe) should last 1 day also in 2017, French Contest should be shortened to 24 hours, we also know that new contests in concept phase - British, or Europe should also last for 1 day.
The number of such contests should be no less than 4-5 a year but no more than 8-9 a year. In first case we are having equilibrium between number of general contests and number of geographically specific. It is also very conservative approach. Let's take CIS and French from the last year, add 1 NA and we have to come up wuth the final concept of only two more having much more to choose from: Europe, Asia, Brittish, Southern Hemisphere, Equinoxe....
If we choose the second approach (8-9 contests 24-contests a year) it will be much easier to launch a contest, and a contest will stay on a calendar for next year after some tweaking or will dissapear.
In case the number of 24h countests will be much greater thn these 48h I propose to take that into account while calculating Top Contest Operator Rankings (all ranking points for 4h contests multiplied by 2)
Welcome to the discussion.
Vy 73' de SP2DNI Andy