Young Buck Award
The purpose of this event is to encourage young operators to become more active.
Event Goal: Earn 1 point (Young Bucks should like this.. how hard can it be to get 1 point?!)
Basic Summary: "Points" are earned based on the age of the SKCC OM you have a QSO with. Or, rather, the inverse of their age. For example, a QSO with someone who is 65 years old would be worth 1/65 point. Likewise, a QSO with a Young Buck of 20 years would be worth 1/20 point. Once you have made contacts with enough SKCC OM to equal 1 whole point (or more), you're eligible for the award. Of course, since 1/20 is bigger than 1/65, bagging a Young Buck is worth more than an old one!
Event Details:
Both parties must be an SKCC Members, and may be counted once (not once per band, just once)
QSO's count starting on May 15, 2007 (official award start date)
This award is to encourage the younger operators of the SKCC to get on the air
Contact and exchange SKCC Number and age on any available band at anytime (warc bands too)
Bonuses will be available for working on novice bands (figuring many young bucks are novice/techs)
Contacts must have a Valid SKCC number at time of the QSO
QSO's MUST be made using an SKCC approved key (Straight Key, BUG, Side Swipers)
Let's go over how you collect "points:"
- 1 point (or more) is needed to qualify
- Each SKCC contact can be counted once (total, not per band)
- A contact is worth "1/age" points. For example, if you work me (KI4STU/SKCC2577), I am 28, and worth 1/28, or 0.0357 points.
- Contacts within novice freqs can 'reduce' the age of the other OM by 1. For example, if you work me, I am 28. If you work me on a novice band, I can be considered to be 27 (one year younger).
- When your total points meets or exceeds '1', send your submissions* for this Award to:
ki4stu@merzhaus.org
Submissions will be spot-checked
*nn8b is kind enough to maintain a spreadsheet for tracking progress towards SKCC awards. I have bribed him into adding a new column for this award. Use his spreadsheet to track your progress, and you'll find two advantages:
(1) The spreadsheet does math, so you don't have to deal with fractions. Just put in the age of the OM you contact (the age they are at the time of your QSO, reduced by 1 if it qualifies for the bonus), and the spreadsheet will calculate the math for you. Your total points (or, fraction thereof), will be shown at the bottom.
(2) Submitting the spreadsheet to me when you qualify for the award makes it a bit easier for me. I'm not going to turn away submissions sent via some other method (word doc, other spreadsheet, database dump), but try to make it something I don't need to work too hard over. Again, NN8B's spreadsheet makes it all easy.
This file is stored in the Yahoo SKCC Files section.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skcc/files