I believe ARRL/NCJ set a minimum number of Qs to qualify for the Golden Log
or high accuracy box. This should encourage part-time operators to put in
more time if the minimum is set high enough.
/Rick N6XI
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Jeff Kinzli <kinzli@kinzlicoils.com> wrote:
> Its an interesting idea. Obviously this would have to be weighted by
> QSOs and/or other metrics to make it meaningful. I.e. a 100% accurate
> score is trivial with 10 QSOs, much harder with 5000 QSOs :)
> Similarly, a contest like WPX or Sweepstakes would be more prone to
> errors than CQWW, for example.
>
> There could be all sorts of metrics that could be published, and if
> not for competition, just for informational purposes I think it would
> be very cool. In the age of cheap disk and compute power, this would
> be relatively easy to calculate, I think.
>
> See R5GA's most excellent rate website: http://rate.r5ga.com/ -
> another metric that could be used.
>
> See you in the pileups,
>
> Jeff N6GQ, YN2AA
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 9:57 AM, James Hadlock <jrhadlock74@msn.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > From: James Hadlock<mailto:jrhadlock74@msn.com>
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> > To: cq-contest@contesting.com<mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com>
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> > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 8:56 AM
> >
> > Subject: Accuracy Top Ten Box
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > How about contest organizers publish as part of the general results a
> Top Ten box for Accuracy? We already have individual accuracy reports for
> the major contests - it would open a whole new form of competition.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jim K7WA
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