On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 03:18, Bob Henderson wrote:
> Your suggestion for establishing a "Uniques" threshold for contacts between
> HQ and other stations in the same territory appears similar in approach to
> the technique used at WRTC. This might be a good way to deal with the issue
> but is dependent, as you suggest, upon the practicalities associated with
> it's introduction to log checking process.
I received a private message (from someone who would know!) indicating
that my fears were not justified, that it would not be nearly as
difficult on the log-checking process as I thought.
> Restructuring the scoring system to substantially reduce credit for these
> contacts, might be an option to reduce the flag waving effect, though it
> would at best ameliorate not cure.
That depends on your definition of "these" contacts - are you referring
to "uniques", or to own-country contacts in general?
71% of W1AW/4's QSOs were with other mainland W stations. Disallowing W
uniques would have cost us a few % of our score - maybe 2-3%? (will
have to check on that) Disallowing contacts with stations in
territories represented by ARRL would have cost us over 71% of our QSOs
and at least 24 multipliers.
I don't think it would have been anywhere near as devastating for any
European HQ operation, unless they were cheating. Even if they *were*
cheating, they wouldn't have lost the mults.
The situation would probably be similar for JARL HQ, except they
wouldn't lose as many mults because JARL is only responsible for zone
45.
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com
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