Steve Bonine wrote:
Michael Coslo wrote:

The Pennsylvania QSO Party is celebrating it's 50th anniversary as the
Friendly QSO Party.

Wow. Congratulations on such a long history.

CW Contacts are worth 2 points per QSO on 80 meters and 160 meters,
and 1.5 points on 40 and above.

I'm just curious about the rationale for this point structure, as I've
never seen this kind of scoring. Is the idea to encourage activity on
80 and 160?

That was the rationale. I guess at some point in the dark past, there
wasn't much CW activity on 80 or 160. So they made that 2 points. Then
apparently someone must have thought that 2 points was too much for the
upper bands, and they settled on 1.5 points.

It is a nuisance I'd been working on getting rid of since I took over
the party.

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -