Inverse distance based scoring If the ARRL DX contest changes, lets also change Sweepstakes as well, but to the opposite, inverse distance based scoring. Since W5, W6, W7, W4, W0, W9 all have the adv
Hi Scott.....I am surprised that you would say it is not broken (ARRL)...you need to come down to Georgia and operate from a station there and you will find that you cannot come close to you score fr
IMHO, the problem is that no matter what you do, there never will be anything close to a truly "level playing field." There are too many factors involved; not just distance, but population density, e
You are aware, are you not, that stations - today - from outside the "NE-NYC-DCA-PIT-ABY-BDL-BOS" corridor can make the top ten or top five (I find it ironic that the original hypothesis of the limit
Personally, I don't think that would be a definitive analysis. I'm pretty sure that contest strategies would change dramatically if the scoring system changed to a grid based system without country m
I prefer to be the DX rather than winning a contest. After all, is not the objective to have fun? If you want to feel more competitive, compare scores by location rather than with the whole USA. Woul
Oh. So instead of establishing a relative benchmark so that we can at least try to do an apples-to-apples all-else-being-equal comparison, we're just going to keep guessing and make assumptions that
You are WAY over reacting to my comment, but I'll try to make this simple enough for you to understand. Checking existing logs for the potential effect of changing the rules as dramatically as is bei
While I may have been a touch heavy on the sarcasm, I stand by my comments. If we?re going to seriously discuss whether or not a change to a distance based scoring system is a viable and "fairer" opt
The other day, someone mentioned boats and the idea of a contest in a contest I actually brought this up with a contester (I don't really consider myself one, as I only play in the NYQP and Food Day
This is all pretty weird. I expressed a short, simple opinion on a contesting topic (second post from the bottom) and now I'm being singled out (by a non-contester no less) for being a roadblock to i