Who will get the UK cheese?

Old Reflector
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Well,

Tom M1EYP and child are wandering around GI trying to get those 12M multipliers.

Steve G1INK is wandering around Wales and elsewhere for those multipliers for the UK.

G6WRW and 2E0YYY seem content where they are in the 12M activator challenge.

Steve is not revealing his cards with last log upload on the 4th May, will he spring a points surprise at the last moment?

Tom, more recent with a log upload on the 21st May perhaps appears more confident.

Who will get the cheese? 8))

Night night.
Mike G6TUH

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In reply to G6TUH:

Steve will. Tom’s not really trying.

I suspect that Jimmy (22 years old I think) might object to being called a “child”.

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In reply to G3CWI:

In reply to G6TUH:

Tom’s not really trying.

Eh!!!

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Hi Mike,

I am 21 years old. I am not a child anymore.

Jimmy M(I)0HGY

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In reply to M0HGY:

I’m 15dByears older than you Jimmy and I can assure you that I am most definitely still a child!

Adulthood: it’s overrated.

Andy
MM0FMF

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In reply to G6TUH:

Who will get the cheese? 8))

Well it was Josh Shepherd and Lucy Townsend as far as I know.
There were the usual crowds blocking the A46 and all the approaches.
Needless to say I stayed well away. (and anyway Cooper’s Hill isn’t a SOTA summit!)

or am I barking up the wrong creamery?

73

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Do the maths - Steve will have the best G total, convincingly so, fair and square. I may well end up with marginally more multipliers than him, but his number of QSOs is considerbly more than “marginally” ahead of mine.

In the G filter of the 12m Challenge, I will finish second. This has been apparent for a long time! There is no danger of me moving to either 1st or 3rd. That said, I was mightily brassed off not the make a single 12m contact on my activation of GI/MM-012 this morning, and hence miss out on a multiplier. I heard both G4OBK and MI6NID on my spotted 24.958 MHz SSB QRG, but they couldn’t hear my reply.

Who gets the cheese? Neither Steve nor I that’s for sure, the stilton is obviously bound for the Czech Republic. And Jimmy - you will still be my child in 25 years time, no getting away from that one!

Tom M1EYP

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In reply to G3CWI:

Tom’s not really trying.

Oh, I don’t know - when he comes over all mathematical he can be really trying!

Whatever happened to SOTA not being competitive? :slight_smile:

Brian G8ADD

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In reply to MM0FMF:

In reply to M0HGY:

I’m 15dByears older than you Jimmy and I can assure you that I am most
definitely still a child!

Adulthood: it’s overrated.

Andy
MM0FMF

15 dB years older? That Highland Hooch must really be the elixir of life! You’d need a birthday cake the size of an EME dish to get all the candles on!

Brian G8ADD

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In reply to G8ADD:

Whatever happened to SOTA not being competitive? :slight_smile:

All credit to Andy on a great idea. It was the scoring system that came up short.

73 Mike
2E0YYY

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In reply to G8ADD:

I’ll give you a hint.

26dBW = 400W
23dBW = 200W
20dBW = 100W
17dBW = 50W
14dBW = 25W

So 15dBYears is left as an exercise for the reader!

Andy
MM0FMF

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In reply to MM0FMF:

or

dBW = 10Log(PW)

dBm = 10Log(PW/1e-3)

For the mathematically precise people.

The older you get, the more you gain, makes sense.

Jonathan.

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In reply to 2E0YYY:

It was the scoring system that came up short.

Someone else designed that.

We maybe should have split things on a QRP/QRO level. But what appealed to me, apart from be called by VK stations, was the simplicity of the scoring.

Andy
MM0FMF

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In reply to MM0FMF:

Look at it the other way:

Jimmy is 21.
+3dB is 42
+6dB is 84
+9dB is 168
+12dB is 336
+15dB is 672

…and soon you match Methuselah!

73

Brian G8ADD

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In reply to G8ADD:

Indeed … it appears there are some who are more competitive than a competitor in a competition competing to be the most competitive in what is actually a challenging challenge designed to challenge us rather than a competitive competition in which we need to compete.
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I think … ;o)
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A damn good idea though :o)

Steve
m0vfr

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In reply to G8ADD:

15dByears older is not 15dB years older.

Andy
MM0FMF

walks off shaking head in despair

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In reply to MM0FMF:

Que?

It looked like finger trouble to me!

Brian G8ADD

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In reply to MM0FMF:

I’m 15dByears older than you Jimmy

Well fancy that! And I was only saying to Gerald last week you don’t look a day over 17.8dByears :wink:

73 de Paul G4MD (17.6dByears)

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In reply to G4MD:
I’m totally lost… How many multipliers on 24mhz for dByear?
:-/

7.3*10e1 de Mikel

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In reply to EA2CW:

I’m totally lost… How many multipliers on 24mhz for dByear?
:-/

I’ve spotted the trick question Mikel… if scoring in dB’s you’d have adders not multipliers…