Mark,
I believe the committee responsible for the IOTA Contest has issued
specific instructions on how some of the QSOs are to be scored. Alas,
I don't have my file on the contest here.
I feel the rule, as you quote it, is not yet written carefully enough
to remove all ambiguity. It starts with a definite statement, "Each
contact with an IOTA island counts 15 points." But then it goes on to
say that it doesn't actually mean what it said. Very confusing.
I think it would help a great deal to have a statement from the
committee that tells how each possible QSO is to be scored. As I
recall the rules of the contest, there are two types of stations:
a station on an IOTA island (I) and a station not on an IOTA island
(N). These can combine in a QSO in three ways: II, IN, NN. Then the
two stations can be in the same country or in different countries. As
a result, the scoring of a QSO has six cases (some of which may yield
the same point value):
Same Different
II
IN
NN
Once we have an official statement of the point value for each cell in
such a table, no ambiguity should remain, and it will be trivial to
get the programming right.
73,
Dave, K1HT dave_hoaglin@abtassoc.com
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