The IARU scoring is also very unfair to those in North America who are on the
wrong side of the zone 8/zone 7 boundary. The population of stations is much
greater in zone 8, so stations in zone 7 (as well as west coast stations in
zone 6) get a significant point advantage.
I'm in zone 8 but close to the zone 7 boundary. If I recompute my scores as
being in zone 7 it can often be a 25% increase in the final score:
(all SO HP CW)
yr change in score 8->7
2008: +23%
2007: +26%
2006: +14%
2005: +14%
It is particularly bad at the bottom of the solar cycle when there are fewer DX
qso's. And add to that the short-range sporadic-E qso's during summertime
conditions.
Additionally removing HQ's as mults would really make the IARU more
geographically fair, but I doubt that is going to happen.
Tor
N4OGW
--- On Wed, 12/2/09, VR2BrettGraham <vr2bg@harts.org..hk> wrote:
> From: VR2BrettGraham <vr2bg@harts.org.hk>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] IARU R1 IARU contest scoring change
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 5:24 AM
> IARU Region 1 HF committee is having
> an interim meeting in OE land
> next February. Papers to be discussed can be found
> at:
>
> http://iaru-r1.org/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=173&func=download&id=294&chk=21d786e3ee7686357f4e705dec541e6b&no_html=1
>
> In this paper, DARC suggests that QSO points in the IARU
> contest be
> changed.
>
> Introduction
>
> When the International Amateur Radio Union decided to
> continue the
> IARU Contest as IARU HF World Championship. the rules were
> enacted
> with no essential changes made since then. The calculation
> of QSO
> points is criticised in many discussions.
>
> Background
>
> The current rules state:
>
> QSO Points:
>
> 1) 7.1. Contacts within your own ITU zone, as well as QSOs
> with any
> IARU-member society HQ station or IARU official (counting
> as the
> special multiplier), count one point each.
> 7.1.1. Contacts with a station in the same ITU zone but on
> a different
> continent count one point.
>
> 2) 7.2. Contacts within your continent (but different ITU
> zone) count
> three points.
>
> 3) 7.3. Contacts with a different continent and IARU zone
> count five
> points.
>
> Many contesters are accustomed to the fact that QSOs with
> the own
> continent are scored with different points than DX QSOs
> (QSOs with
> other continents). But from the sporting point of view it
> is difficult to
> understand that zone borders are separating one continent
> into different
> (ITU) zones. Example: Many German stations take part in
> this contest
> which can be found also in the logs of our neighbours.
> While our Eastern
> neighbours score one point for each QSO with DL, our
> Western
> neighbours score three points for a QSO with Germany
> because they
> are located in a different ITU zone accidentally.
>
> Reference:
>
> Presentation VIE09_C4_08 IARU HF World Championship
>
> Recommendation
>
> That the HF committee develops a new scoring method.
>
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