Dear Colleagues, Good day! I really appreciate all messages sent, each individual point of view, sharing opinions, suggestions all with education and fully respect. Join a contest like CQWW and CQWPX
So if I'm understanding this correctly, Fernando is basically proposing that the Caribbean area be separated from, and considered as a separate "continental zone" if you will, from both North & South
Fernando, The only way out to what you describe is a distance-based scoring system. Regional scoring systems will not resolver the issue. The only way for a big portion of entrants to have chances of
The fundamental problem is that the guys in PY, LU, CX, and CE have the same competitive disadvantage by virtue of their location with respect to population centers as do we on the west coast of the
Good explanation of the current situation Jim! I really believe that contesting as a hobby has gotten to a point where more and more people is interested in achieving not a perfect, but a more levele
Stew Perry is a 160m contest. On top band the difficulty of making a QSO generally increases with distance. Distance based scoring to some degree will even things out for those that live further from
Hello Jim, First off, let me assure you I have the greatest respect for your technical prowess and appreciate all your efforts to help anyone who asks. However, I respectfully disagree on the merits
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:32:11 -0500
I believe that at some point in the past, someone did an analysis of what would happen to a past contest if the scoring metric was changed from the current scoring format (I believe it was a CQWW con
I don't know Rich if this is exactly correct your remarks "those who won then (under a traditional system) would continue to have won under distance based format." How do we know this? Before we have
The study Rich refers to is eminently possible: all you need to is take existing logs, spit them through a system that retabulates score based on distance and look at the results. It's not hard and o