Being a longer time radio op, I'm wondering something.
You look at most any contest and look at the multipliers....
Phone x1 for points
CW x2
Digital modes x (2 to 5)
These count for QSO parties, state parties, etc.
Maybe I'm alone in my thinking on this, but digital is fast, CW (with the proper hearing or software can get through when voice simply can't)
It would seem to me that someone operating voice would get a multiplier being that voice is slower and has a higher error rate (was the a D or a E ((Minus phenetics)))
So a person that is working a mode that is more prone to issues with the transmission gets a lower score?
Honestly it doesn't make sense to me.
Help me understand. Not a fight. I could understand a digital contest. but a mixed mode where digital mode gets a score multiplier over slower speed voice traffic.. just seems like the completely backward way to think about it.
Thoughts?
You look at most any contest and look at the multipliers....
Phone x1 for points
CW x2
Digital modes x (2 to 5)
These count for QSO parties, state parties, etc.
Maybe I'm alone in my thinking on this, but digital is fast, CW (with the proper hearing or software can get through when voice simply can't)
It would seem to me that someone operating voice would get a multiplier being that voice is slower and has a higher error rate (was the a D or a E ((Minus phenetics)))
So a person that is working a mode that is more prone to issues with the transmission gets a lower score?
Honestly it doesn't make sense to me.
Help me understand. Not a fight. I could understand a digital contest. but a mixed mode where digital mode gets a score multiplier over slower speed voice traffic.. just seems like the completely backward way to think about it.
Thoughts?