In any contest on bands for which there is a skip zone, distance-based scoring will not work. Imagine how hard it is to work a station on 10 meters 200 miles away by backscatter compared to, say, 250
Perhaps QST could be persuaded to list regional top five scores for ALL ARRL contests, and the ARRL to actively promote the sponsoring of plaques for same? 73 jeff wk6i -- Jeff Stai ~ wk6i.jeff@gmail
I think ARRL already does break out geographic regions as well as division clusters for at least some of their contests in their full results articles. See, for example: http://www.arrl.org/files/fil
Author: Alan Dewey via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 18:17:19 -0400
I agree with Ward on this one. The ARRL CAC looked at distance based scoring in minute detail a while back for ARRL DX and concluded that it was not the way to go. There were just too many disparitie
Dear Ward, BKK to Tokyo 2858 to MO 6391 BKK to Berlin 5537 to MO 4657 BKK to Hartford, Ct. 8570 to MO 1077 BKK to Chicago 8563 to MO 300 BKK to LAX 8278 to MO 1800 BKK to Santiago 17,648 to MO 5110 B
Yes, but not all of them, and top tens are still emphasized. 73 jeff wk6i -- Jeff Stai ~ wk6i.jeff@gmail.com Twisted Oak Winery ~ http://www.twistedoak.com/ Facebook ~ http://www.facebook.com/twisted
Thanks Ward for your calmly reasoned explanation that you also sent to the reflector some time ago.. What was it, about 2 years ago when this same discussion was raging? Seems that no one was listeni
There are some good arguments, but also a lot of complaining. Please read well Ward's email.. I dont think that theres any formula to make everyone happy and I dont agree with the idea that not all c
There are some good arguments, but also a lot of complaining. Please read well Ward's email.. I dont think that theres any formula to make everyone happy and I completely oppose the idea that not all
The ZLs suffer even more than you. I once made a giant spreadsheet about twenty years ago which calculated average distance between all of the DXCC entities and the ZLs were about one hop worse than
Not even close. Nowhere is there a breakout for parts of the US -- Zone 3 is lumped with Zones 4 and 5. I managed to place first in the Pacific division and in CA in the 2013 10M contest for Unassist
I made several specific suggestions that had NOTHING to do with distance-based scoring. Why no response? One involved redefining what constitutes a multiplier in ways that significantly reduce the di
Maybe the ARRL should take his advice and start promoting these regional winners and DE-emphasing the overall winner. Does coming in 1st place Rocky Mountain mean anything when you finish 5 million p
Hi, Well, in my case, not. At least not for "continental" regions. Middle-east and Cyprus are both in Asia and can work EU stations much longer and with greater easiness than I can. The same is also
The reason these things don't go away is that they are not being solved or really addressed. I believe that cheating has gotten much worse recently and much of that has to do with the less than sever
Hi Ward Rather than a level playing field which as you note is just about impossible, for me all discussion about points scoring boils down to one thing. Incentivising stations to beam to all parts o
Dear Ward, In my own conviction that I am correct on every topic, nevertheless never would I ever say "My advice stands." 1. I have ONLY suggested that a distance score ACCOMPANY the traditional scor
because I think mostly they don't want to talk about it because it would be a huge amount of work :-) Back in 1995 (May 1995 NCJ), I published with K3NA a system for operator rating based on regiona
See my ARRL DX Phone writeups between 2003 (or something) and 2013 - we had an excellent team of authors providing regional analysis from each ARRL Division and for the non-NA continentals. The final
worldwide I made a proposal some years ago for a "coverage" contest that could be run as an overlay to any existing contest. Extra points would be awarded based on the number of clock hours (0000-00