Easy: scores are all based on short-path only.
Of course there are vagaries of propagation. This is just a scoring system, not
a measurement system.
The goal is to get the EU and US masses to point their antennas away from each
other and out toward the rest of the world for more than just a single QSO per
zone or DXCC. The goal is not to differentiate between LP and SP, or other
modes of propagation. If it helps, you could actually think of LP contacts as
bonus points: you were able to contact that distant location when SP paths were
closed. More points!
I'm against correction factors, except perhaps by band, to encourage people to
spread out and not jam 20m wall-to-wall.
With distance-based scoring, I'm confident we will find as much or more travel
to DX locations -- it's just that the particular spots chosen will be different
-- and it will take some time to discover the best ones. I consider those
things to be good for the sport, not bad.
73, Rick ZL2HAM / ZM1G
-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of brian
coyne
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 8:16 AM
To: Martin , LU5DX
Cc: cq contest
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Scoring System needs revision?
So Martin how are you going to score all of my morning long path qso's with
central and South America, you could throw in JA too. Short path distances can
hardly be used when the contacts are clearly long path.
Distance scoring does have merit for Stew Perry which is 160mtrs and there
would be a case for 80mtrs too but the higher bands are too subject to the
vagaries of propagation.
It is clear that southern hemisphere stations are at a disadvantage on the
lower bands, and on the higher bands too during low sunspot years. There may
well be a case for allowing more points to those stations on the lower bands
but where could the line be drawn when parts of those zones and countries are
north side of the equator?
Few would argue that the present scoring system is fair to all entrants.
Clearly there are favoured areas but how many fewer travelers would there be
to some of those rarer dx countries, causing a reduction in available mults if
scoring advantages were removed, travelers tend to be serious guys who want to
win rather than visit for fun.
There is no easy solution, despite suggestions we have seen here some which,
prima facie, look as though they could be workable fail to be viable when
given further scrutiny. I doubt that CQWW CC can be persuaded to make any
changes, it is as it is, and, as more than 14,000 of us have been content to
enter and submit logs in the two events this year showing an ongoing increase
year to year the CC will feel under no obligation to make any changes.
With regard to southern hemisphere scoring, for what it is worth, the RSGB
Commonwealth Contest, one of the oldest contests on the calendar, has made an
effort to address the imbalances of contact availabilities for Oceania,
Southern Africa etc for their team competition which has been successful in
it's objective of providing a more level playing field and encouraged more
participation from those areas. The method is described in the exert below
taken from the rules.
<i>(a) The team score is the sum of individual adjudicated scores, with all
stations located in the southern hemisphere or on the equator having their
final score multiplied by a “latitude factor”.
(b) The “latitude factor” will be re-calculated each year based on published
scores: for each hemisphere, the highest-scoring team total for each of the
last three years will be used to give an overall total and the factor will be
calculated as the ratio of the northern to the southern grand totals rounded
down to the nearest two decimal places.</i>
73 Brian 5B4AIZ / C4Z.
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