>Complex: If you wanted to make the scoring more "fair", in the sense of
>scoring contacts based on relative difficulty, some enterprising soul could
>mine the logs for the past solar cycle to measure the relative rarity of
>contacts by zone-pairs, by band, and assign Q points based on the results,
>with "easy" contacts getting 1 point, and "hard" contacts getting considerably
>more. I'm sure, however, that the various logging software developers would
>"love" such a scheme.
The Volta RTTY contest does something like this, although it isn't apparent
what methodology or data was used to generate the lookup table. Crunching log
data isn't the only way to do this. Another approach would be to generate the
table based on the results of VOACAP predictions (assuming a standard pair of
Tx and Rx antenna systems) for the applicable month of the contest.
73, Ryan AI6DO
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