Author: ko7ss--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 06:34:39 +0000 (UTC)
"your groups would be better served by using the contest weekend assignment and exchange and basic scoring rules as an "open source" activity. Sponsor your own contest within a contest that operates
The grid-locator has not been removed from the CQ WW and WPX public logs. Not all logs included this information, but for those that did, it appears in their public log. The grid-locator information
The ARRL public logs located at: http://contests.arrl.org/publiclogs.php are in Cabrillo format and contain the 6-character grid square entered by the entrant at the time of submission as a HQ-GRID-L
Without access to the UBN's (LCR's), the validity of an independent party scoring a contest within a contest is questionable. 73, Steve, N2IC The grid-locator information was just added to the contes
Author: Richard F DDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:53:29 +0000
WPX is kind of one of the only contests where you could do scoring on grid locator. And even then, not so reliably. Behavior in contests is very much points driven, and contesters make very strategic
Not necessarily. The third party could download all the logs and do their own scoring. The only things the public logs are missing are the checklogs. Without access to the UBN's (LCR's), the validity
The third party would need to reinvent the wheel in terms of log checking. 73, Steve, N2IC Without access to the UBN's (LCR's), the validity of an independent party scoring a contest within a contest
Yes, it would be a huge effort to re-invent the log checking. And the effect is significant. For example, according to https://www.cqww.com/publiclcr/, the average score deduction for 2018 CQWW was 1
I have outlined an alternative scoring proposal for CQWW quite some time ago in our club's newsletter. It is mostly distance-based and doesn't require any changes to the exchange or additional grid s
Denis, I think your scoring scheme has a critical flaw: the points for each qso depend on basically arbitrary zone boundaries, and the zone boundaries in some cases divide up countries with lots of
Tor, Yes, inequities within the zones are a problem. I'm quite familiar with it, though in a different context, having contested from the Pacific Northwest and the Bay Area, both at the western edge
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