I was not aware of the Volta RTTY’s scoring grid, but they are on the right
track.
http://www.contestvolta.it/point%20table.htm
The particular values are greatly exaggerated, but they do avoid the weird
discontinuities such as that between zone 8 vs. zone 9. Polar paths don’t seem
to be reflected; zone 4 has the same points to Z18 and Z 35, although the 4-35
path is much easier.
Things could be refined even further by having different values for different
bands. A QSO to VK is far easier on 20 or 10 (when there are sunspots) than on
80.
Use of such scoring won’t make W6 a primo DX contest location, but it would
give some comfort to those is far away places like HS and VK.
73 - Jim K8MR
On Jul 24, 2016, at 10:32 PM, Ryan Noguchi via CQ-Contest
<cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote:
> My postings seem to be disappearing into a black hole of apathy too, so I
> feel your pain. However, we're talking about a DX contest here, while you're
> talking about scoring profiles that flatten out a mere two grid squares away.
> I'm not surprised there were few or no responses.
> If scoring strictly proportional to distance isn't able to adequately capture
> the difficulty of a particular circuit, there are other options. The Volta
> RTTY contest defines a lookup table that establishes point values for each
> pairwise combination of CQ zones, ranging from 2 points (within the same
> zone) to 55. These point values do not appear to be based solely on distance.
>
>
> 73, Ryan AI6DO
>
>
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