All this envy of the east coast puzzles me. Anyone else with any room and a good rural location in the SE could do as good as the east coast. I don't see a reason for a rule change when a little work
I agree. Distance is NOT the only problem. There are propagation issues at work for different paths. K3LR is on the Ohio border!!! K3LR is not by any stretch of the imagination an east coast station.
Hey Barry, are you saying we are lids down here? I resemble that remark. If we can get the emotions and people out of this and use technology and logic, we can sort through potential improvements. I
One thing about racing is people learn to take a licking without excuses. Whining and moaning doesn't go far. No one tolerates it, and that probably is why I have such a low tolerance for it. This i
It is woefully apparent the actual path in relation to magnetic poles makes as much or more difference than the path length does. Also I'm 100% sure distance is not a linear problem. A distance corr
Approximate distances to Germany: Ma 3800 WPa (K3LR) 4150 Mn 4400 Wi 4400 IL 4500 Mid GA 4700 Doesn't seem like distance is the main issue to me. 73 Tom _____________________________________________
This is how well thought out this has been. W9RE is around 300 miles closer to Germany than I am. I have vastly better propagation, but would get an edge over Mike. Why would anyone want that? The pa
I'm amazed this thing is being pushed so hard without any science to back the opinion that a distance problem really exists or that it can be corrected or reduced by some forced change in rules. This
Exactly. Path is more important than distance, yet this has been illogically been driven by the incorrect assumption distance is the primary problem. Based on what happens here and looking at skimme
Disclaimer, this is not what I usually work with so I am open to corrections by those more experienced. Martin, Distance, without things like path problems, is by the inverse of the square of distanc
Any valid adjustment based on previous score data to level the field would require operators and antennas to be the same. There is a total lack of useful data to do anything based on previous scores,
Scores are a product of many factors that are entirely the responsibility of the person controlling the operation. We want to take propagation out of the equation. The only way to do that is to deter
The existing transmitting beacons are useless unless they use standard antennas properly oriented at similar site types and they are in useful general locations in the USA. Reverse beacons with us us
The two major problems with comparing two or three complex stations on one weekend, or even several weekends, is that none of us really know how those stations actually work. We might know how model
Hi Bob, I don't think it is a problem to use anything that exists if it is useful and does not take more time. Is that system really useful? Are the beacons on all bands? Are they in the right locati
That's a very good point Mike. The USA is just too big. Maybe it needs divided into different top ten zones. _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contest
The oldest intentional or political trick in the book, and the most common accidental unintentional mistake, is to use statistics or data that at casual glance looks compelling to support some argume
I think we should mandate log errors for people who have abnormally accurate logs. Let's call it dyslexic based scoring. After all, we all know the reason for not succeeding always is with the person
It seems we are developing a universal policy. If we don't do well, it is always someone or something else's fault beyond our personal responsibility or control. Watch carefully and see how often th
If we did some planned tests, as I proposed in the great distance based score debate, it would get us some rough idea over time how dipoles (which are stable and easy to predict) compare from various