{"id":18137,"date":"2017-08-25T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T12:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=18137"},"modified":"2017-08-25T13:36:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T13:36:51","slug":"vhfuhf-ukac-scoring-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2017\/08\/25\/vhfuhf-ukac-scoring-system\/","title":{"rendered":"VHF\/UHF UKAC Scoring System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a number of years, there has been a high degree of debate around what scoring system should be used for the RSGB VHF\/UHF UK Activity contests. As a consequence of this discussion, the RSGB President, Nick Henwood, G3RWF, convened a group of experienced contesters representative of the major viewpoints held. This group has worked with the VHF Contest Committee to propose a set of options for scoring systems for the UKAC contests which were to be voted on by RSGB members active in VHF Contests.<\/p>\n<p>Two options were proposed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>B3 &#8211; a variant of the current scheme with reduced overall bonus scores and some additional high bonus squares<\/li>\n<li>Nordic \u2013 where the first contact with every new square attracts a bonus of 500 points<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That vote has now closed, and from 287 votes, the final result was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>77% &#8211; Nordic<\/li>\n<li>23% &#8211; B3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a very clear result and the Nordic scoring system will be implemented for the 2018 series of UKAC events from 6m through to 23cm.<\/p>\n<p>In the responses to this survey about UKAC scoring, we received many comments and questions on other topics. These are being used to create a second consultation on all other aspects of VHF-UHF-SHF Contest rules, which will follow shortly.<\/p>\n<p>There is also an <a href=\"https:\/\/thersgb.org\/publications\/committees\/contest\/reports\/170825 FAQ UKAC Scoring Vote.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FAQ available here<\/a> which includes a little more detail about the survey.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any queries regarding this, please contact the VHF Contest Committee Chair, Andy Cook, G4PIQ at <a href=\"mailto:vhfcc.chair@rsgb.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vhfcc.chair@rsgb.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a number of years, there has been a high degree of debate around what scoring system should be used for the RSGB VHF\/UHF UK Activity contests. As a consequence of this discussion, the RSGB President, Nick Henwood, G3RWF, convened a group of experienced contesters representative of the major viewpoints held. This group has worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[309,328],"class_list":["post-18137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rsgb-notices","tag-contest","tag-ukac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}