When I read the e mail from Charlie and the Stew Perry, I sent him the
below message, but now since others seem to think possibly the same way,
hey what the heck here it is for everyone.
Hi Charley,
I have a new contest I was working on several years ago that I think you
would have loved if I had a way to get it running to the general public.
The scoring is as you said Distance based AND difficulty based.
This is how it would have worked.
Everyone works anyone. Every QSO is worth something.
Multipliers were the maidenhead Grid Squares, Like EN or FN or "OK" etc.
Now this is where the difficulty part enters.
Voice mode contacts multiply QSO point values by 1, CW and all other
Digital Modes Multiply QSO points by 2 CW and all the other "Digital"
modes are thought of as a different mode. So a station can be worked on
a Voice mode, and a CW, and also one of the Digital modes, so they can
be worked 3 times per band.
QSO Points: I will use you location as an example.
On 160, 80, & 40 Meters:
A QSO with a station in "OK" square is worth 1 QSO point.
A QSO with any Square that Touches "OK" IE: NL, OL, PL, NK, PK, NJ, OJ,
PJ HAVE A VALUE OF 2 QSO points.
A QSO with all other squares are worth 3 QSO points.
NOW on 20, 15, & 10 Meters:
The difficulty reverses, it is MUCH more difficult to make a QSO close
in on the higher bands. SO.......
A QSO with "OK" is worth the 3 QSO points,
A QSO with any Square that Touches "OK" IE: NL, OL, PL, NK, PK, NJ, OJ,
PJ HAVE A VALUE OF 2 QSO points.
A QSO with all other squares are worth 1 QSO points.
Thoughts?
Joe WB9SBD
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On 5/25/2015 9:04 PM, Charles Harpole wrote:
Finally, I read the latest Stew Perry contest rules.
Stew Perry rules are now my absolute favorite..... stressing real ham radio
! And scoring by distance! Wow.
Now, if only there were other contests with distance scores!
Hey, Stew Perry guys, can I borrow your distance computation program to run
on my own logs on other contests.
Now to try to get on 160. 73, Charly
Sig
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On 5/25/2015 9:15 PM, Tom Haavisto wrote:
This is interesting and is similar to the issue that NQ4I has raised
for several years now. Namely, that he is too far south to be
competitive in a DX contest where working Europe is a must. FWIW:
even though I am a VE3, I am above Minnesota, and there is a big
difference in propagation from here and other VE3's east of me. So -
for all intents, I too am disadvantaged in a DX contest like the CQWW.
That said, I would like to repeat what I told Rick - NQ4I. Start a
NEW DX contest, with rules that you feel are fair to everyone in every
part of the world. If folks like the rules, they will come and play.
If they don't - well - it will die a quick death. Pick your
weekend(s), and away you go. Based on the tremendous (and growing)
popularity of the CQWW, why mess with a good thing? Leave it alone.
Start a new contest, and see what happens...
Tom - VE3CX
On 5/25/15, Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
On Mon,5/25/2015 5:05 PM, Steve Sacco NN4X wrote:
Perhaps all entries should be graded on a curve? /sarc
A concept I've toyed with is for stations within each geographic region
are assigned a handicap based on how their scores compare to other
scores in the same region. For example, stations in W1 make a logical
region. ARRL sections SNJ, NLI, ENY, NNJ, WDC, DE, and EPA might make
another one. WNY, NNY, WPA, OH, MI, WV, and the ON sections might be
another. Canada east of VE3 another. And so on. A station's final score
in a contest would be adjusted based on a factor proportional to his
score and the average of all scores in his region.
This simple concept (simple now, thanks to computing power) could be
part of leveling the playing field in a lot of contests. The other half
of it is changing the scoring rules so that more stations want to work
each other. This might involved redefining what counts as a multiplier,
or perhaps eliminating multipliers and going to distance-based scoring,
like the Stew Perry.
K6XX, for example, has long suggested counting entities within the
European Union as a single multiplier. Don't like all those lovely EU
multipliers going away? How about call area multipliers for VK and ZL,
and multipliers for JA prefectures?
All of these suggestions are VERY easily implemented with computers that
are on all of our desks. Heck -- I've seen scoring rules changes added
to N1MM Plus in a week! With this sort of change, CQWW actually BECOMES
a WW contest, rather than a party for the privileged class.
73, Jim K9YC
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