Fascinating stuff, Fabian, thanks for sharing.
Just for fun I pulled out US top 20 from your raw scores and compared with the
final top 20.
CQWW Official Results
1 K1LZ............6,796,620
2 K5ZD/1..........6,666,975
3 K1DG............5,751,568
4 K3CR............5,697,146
5 NN4TO...........5,366,740
6 N2IC/5..........4,371,558
7 W9RE ...........3,904,510
8 K3ZM/4..........3,808,512
9 K5GO ...........3,801,060
10 N2LT............3,655,708
11 W6YI............3,380,952
12 AA1K/3 .........3,121,986
13 WXØB/5..........2,808,162
14 K3ZO............2,729,524
15 K8GL ...........2,606,080
16 W2RU ...........2,320,928
17 N4TB ...........2,295,780
18 K7RL ...........2,224,200
19 K6XX ...........2,177,980
20 N6TV ...........2,120,760
DJ1YFK's scale
1 027707519 K5ZD +1
2 027241245 K1LZ -1
3 023557571 NN4TO +2
4 025534096 K1DG =
5 023211981 K3CR -1
6 020693534 N2IC =
7 019638634 W6YI +4
8 018766008 K3ZM =
9 018571781 K5GO =
10 018392584 W9RE -3
11 016702079 N2LT -1
12 015984732 N6TV +8
13 015328095 AA1K -1
14 015215783 K7RL +4
15 014693827 WX0B -2
16 014425134 K6XX +3
17 013680842 K7GK +4
18 013157488 W2RU -2
19 013052561 K3ZO -5
20 012914483 KO7AA +2
Not surprisingly, all West Coast stations in the top 20 had higher
distance-based rank compared to the actual standings. Now, if we could somehow
take into account EU being a polar path...
73, Denis - K7GK
> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:46:30 +0100
> From: mail@fkurz.net
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW contest analysis database
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:02:19PM +0300, wally wrote:
> > Now a volunteer with sufficient knowledge in this field can use this data
> > and
> > make "Distance Based Top Scores" listings for CQWW Contests between 2006 -
> > 2008.
>
> Only for CQWW CW 2008, which could easily be downloaded from CQWW.com.
> The database file advertised earlier here on this reflector was in
> some cancerous proprietery format that I could not open.
>
> I just downloaded all CQWW CW 2008 files and analyzed them by the
> following simple methodology:
>
> a) For each unique call in all logs, a DXCC was determined by a simple
> algorithm based on the CTY.DAT file and saved in a database
> b) A matrix with all distances between all known DXCCs was created.
> With a total of DXCC^2 entries.
> c) Each CQWW CW 2008 log was recalculated by accumulated kilometers
> instead if the known CQWW scoring rules.
>
> Here we go, for two interesting categories. The columns denote:
> 1. Place, calculated by kilometers
> 2. Distance of all QSOs in km
> 3. Callsign
> 4. Actual position in CQWW 2008 results (if easily found in printed scores)
>
> SINGLE-OP ONE NON-ASSISTED ALL HIGH FIXED
>
> 1. 45028774 V47NT 3
> 2. 40775552 ZS4TX (5.8m pts - not in top ten)
> 3. 39419835 PZ5TT 4
> 4. 38693640 8P5A 5
> 5. 36996791 V31WA 6
> 6. 35883301 EF8M (1?, DQ)
> 7. 32314061 ZF2AM (10)
> 8. 32120589 ZY7C --
> 9. 32108502 VK2IA ("only" 2.8m points)
> 10. 31531618 PW2D --
>
> Top ten scorer 3V8BB (YT1AD, 1st) is at 27238661km, just below K1LZ.
> CT3NT (CT1BOH) at 29775030km, below JH4UYB and 5H3EE!
>
> MULTI-OP UNLIMITED ASSISTED ALL HIGH FIXED
>
> 1. 108586599 HC8N 1 (32m)
> 2 91206345 3X5A 2 (29m)
> 3. 55337998 JA5FDJ
> 4. 53295746 KH7X
> 5. 53263736 CT9L 3 (23m)
> 6. 46385052 KC1XX 4 (15m)
> 7. 46236480 JA3YBK
> 8. 45277088 K3LR 5 (14m)
> 9. 43290689 W3LPL
> 10. 41501754 HD2M
> 11. 37537522 EE2W (11m)
> 12. 36885769 LZ9W (12m)
> 13. 35973796 DF0HQ 6 (13m)
>
> (LZ9W and EE2W are 2nd and 3rd in EU respectively; just opposite to
> their positions calculated by the distances!)
>
> Some scores may be missing from the results posted here. The format of
> the Cabrillo headers for the categories were often not according to
> the standard. Unedited results at http://fkurz.net/ham/scores9.txt
>
> Conclusions? None.
>
> CQWW is the name of the game and everyone knows the rules. They're
> fine as they are. I like them. They encourage activities from remote
> locations and don't let couch potatoes win.
>
> "Fair" rules in a HF contest for everyone are an illusion. In terms of
> pure CW skills, you may get as far as you can get to a fair judgement
> if you go to an IARU HST competition. But be prepared to be beaten by
> some 14 year old girls from ex-USSR countries. Now is that fair? :-)
>
> 73,
> --
> Fabian Kurz, DJ1YFK * Munich, Germany * http://fkurz.net/ .---.
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