EMike, I think we are on the same page. All I was trying to say was that if everyone only talks to one other person and then goes to 20m or whatever, then pretty quickly there is no one there to answer someone who is trying to get his 100 points. So your idea, I think, is good. Initiate only 1 or 2 (rather than crowding the bird with your call repeated over and over) but be there to answer someone else.
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 6:18 PM, E.Mike McCardel mccardelm@gmail.com wrote:
Burns,
I’m not sure we follow each other. But I think we do.
One, 100 point bonus per entity for a satellite contact no matter how many are made on different satellites. In my example you call CQ or QRZ, I return my call, you pick it out and answer, I confirm. You confirm. I then call CQ or QRZ, Someone else returns my call, I pick it out and answer, They confirm. I confirm. They then CQ or QRZ etc. Points, 1 x 100 point bonus. Two, one point contact points. What I see is everyone calling at once. Somebody, maybe, gets through by calling someone they heard and continue if they don’t get stepped on.
Clarify? 73, EMike
EMike McCardel, AA8EM Rotating Editor AMSAT News Service Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 25, 2018, at 2:51 PM, Burns Fisher burns@fisher.cc wrote:
So EMike, I think you are proposing that one should only INITIATE two
calls (and one of them counts for your 100pt bonus). The rest of the time you would have people be willing to respond to a call initiated by someone else, but not be the one to effectively call CQ/QRZ? All of these count as contacts on a band, and you are also doing a service for those initiating. That would sort of answer the question that came to my mind in all of this: If each organization only made one satellite call, then you quickly run out of participants to answer the call :-)
73,
Burns WB1FJ