Martin;
You are right. We looked primarily at the affect on the North America
scores in ARRL DX because, of course, the world works North American in that
event. I could see where those who participate in CQWW could look at
distance based scoring differntly. Having said that, there was nearly
unanimous
sentiment against the change for ARRL DX at the time.
As for the logging software, you are right that this could be handled
without changing the contest exchange by adding the grid square to the
Cabrillo. However, my assumption is that most contesters like to see their
score
in real time during the contest. I was thinking that adding a table of
distances between the zones (perhaps between the zone's midpoints) to the
logging programs would allow the logging software to continue to compute the
score in real time. Admittingly, this would not be as accurate as grid
squares.
73,
AL, K0AD
In a message dated 11/29/2013 11:29:55 A.M. Central Standard Time,
lu5dx@lucg.com.ar writes:
Hi Al.
The analysis you mention was done for the ARRL and it's sort of domestic.
I've done the analysis in the past for CQ WW and it was really leveling at
a world wide basis.
Logging soft doesn't need to change at all.
All needed is for stations to state their grid locator in the cabrillo.
Since, unless changes to the exchange are implemented (e.g. grid locator
instead of RS(T) and CQ Zone in this case).
The log checking software run by organizers can easily do the rest.
73.
Martin LU5DX
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:30 PM, <_Aldewey@aol.com_
(mailto:Aldewey@aol.com) > wrote:
Distance based scoring is something that was looked at in detail for ARRL
DX contest a couple years ago. While it had it's advocates, there were a
couple main concerns that caused us to set it aside for now. The first was
that, depending on propagation, the distance of a Contest QSO, does not
always equate to the effort needed to make that Q. In many cases, on 10
and 15
meters for example, it is easier for someone Florida (for example) to make
a contact with EU than it is the Caribbean. The CAC actually worked with
someone who re scored a couple past DX Contests using the Distance Based
Scoring and the results did not change all that much. Scores in the
middle
part of the U.S. rose and scores on the east coasts went down and the
order
of the top ten changed a little but not that much. Logging software would
have to change of course and we were concerned that there were many
contesters that would not be comfortable with Grid Squares (which would
give the
most accurate results). Finally, the majority of the contesters we
talked to
were not in favor or such a change.
So, at least for now, the change was not recommended.
73,
AL, K0AD
In a message dated 11/29/2013 9:53:26 A.M. Central Standard Time,
_xdavid@cis-broadband.com_ (mailto:xdavid@cis-broadband.com) writes:
The topic of distance-based scoring comes up consistently and many
contesters seem to be in favor of it, but somehow it never gains any
traction beyond the Stew Perry. I wonder how many contesters are
actually AGAINST distance-based scoring for major contests, and what
their reasons would be.
73,
Dave AB7E
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