There will never be a level playing field in the real world of ham radio contesting. If you want a level playing field, we need some sort of video game/software where nothing is random. While I agree
Doug, The problem with this thread is the title. So many are correct in that there will never be a level playing field. I don't think anyone wants to do well versus someone else because of a handicap
Stan Eloquently expressed it thusly................... Something is not quite right when a part time effort in a DX contest can make top ten and knock out a full time effort by as good an operator fr
Milt, N5IA agreed with Stan's (K5GO) comment below. -- Original Message -- and knock out a full time effort by as good an> operator from a better A main problem with "points for distance" approach is
Problem with a 6 digit grid square mult is everyone would be a mult. every contact. whats the good of that? Id go at the absolute MOST 4 digit. in my case EN43, but out here even that is a mult for e
Author: "David J. Sourdis - HK1A" <hk1kxa@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:33:55 -0500
Using the locators as an exchange might be too much for some but, OTOH, would make exchange meaningful. The locator in the header as information for the contest robot is a good idea, in my opinionTo
I think grid squares is a bad idea for a multi-band DX contest. Many hams do not even know what their grid square is and would not have the least idea as to how to find it. Grid square contests like
There seems to be some confusion about changing to distance-based scoring. There is no need to change the ARRL DX contest exchange to implement distance-based scoring. The CTY.DAT files already have
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
Quite true Tom. But NOT TRUE for the other 80% of the country! Mis dos centavos, de Milt, N5IA All this envy of the east coast puzzles me. Anyone else with any room and a good rural location in the S
Hi Steve...Now thats an excellent idea...we all have computers that we use in keeping and scoring the log...based on the distances involved in the qso in question, the computer would assign a score b
Steve is correct. The test rescoring of logs will use coordinates from the CTY file for DX locations, and coordinates for the approximate center of State/Province for W/VE locations. This has the adv
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.
Very cool Rick. Using your "ruler", what is the potential value of a W1 to JA contact? How about vs. W7 to JA? Also, if you were to assign an addtional weight factor to the low bands, what would a W1
win-win-win-win....... all u wanna do?........... why not just have fun and work what you can? w6vnr --Original Message-- _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Co
I am a competitor. I often liken amateur radio contesting to the Hot Rod 1/4 mile drag strips. You work on your "rod" (station) all week long and then you go the the drags on Saturday night (favorite
Thinking about the "leveling of the field" and the seemingly unending effort to "make it fair". Yes, quotes, because, to me, it is astoundingly clear, that this is not achievable, with any amount of
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
bands there is absolutely no reason it cannot be done on 80 and 20 from down here. ...or 10...and my setup is minor compared to the top 3 MMs (XX, LPL and LR). http://users.vnet.net/btippett/new_page
Years ago I set out to win USA 40 LP in the CQ contests. It was a major challenge for my humble station. The previous winners had "Run Japan" from the west coast and from an east coast station with o