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Re: [VHFcontesting] Leveling the Playing Field- [ REGIONAL VS. NATIONAL

To: James Duffey <jamesduffey@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Leveling the Playing Field- [ REGIONAL VS. NATIONAL ]
From: Jonesy W3DHJ via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Jonesy W3DHJ <W3DHJ@jonz.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:57:59 -0700 (MST)
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, James Duffey wrote:

>One geographic advantage that those in northern latitudes enjoy could
>be easily leveled by normalizing raw scores:
>
>normalized score = raw score/(1+cos(latitude))
>
>This would take of the smaller east-west linear dimension of grid
>squares at the northern latitudes.
>
>:^)= - Duffey KK6MC

 +1  :^)=   Jonesy W3DHJ

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