Hello Jan, et al.
It looks like the scoring structure is now set for points based
on geographical displacement instad on country boundries.
When country boundries are used, the European continent
has an overbundance of higher QSO points for the same
geographical area covered vs that of any other continent,
particularily, North America. If we gave point structures
like the old Soviet States to each of the United States, would
you still complain? Sure, but it compares equally. Of course,
maybe we should now reduce the points of the members of the
European Economic Counsel to one point. That, again, compares.
Near equal QSO point values for near equal population ham
population and distances covered to communicate are difficult,
but should be taken into account when developing a world wide
contest's scoring structure.
Jan.E.Holm@telia.se wrote:
> One question: Why should the point structure be different in the
> North American continent compared to the rest of the world if
> this is supposed to be a WW contest (also CQWW) ???
>
> de SM2EKM
>
> PS: Dont just look at this to be a EU vs USA deal. I look
> at it as a WW deal.
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> Ämne: [CQ-Contest] WPX results vs. SM2EKM claims
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> Hi everybody,
> I have to totally disagree with SM2EKM's observations that the new WPX
> rules makes the contest the "American QSO Party". At the bottom of this
> message you will see my breakdown by continent and multipliers by
> country. I think my log will be representative of an "active" station
> who operated nearly the full 36hrs and is hoping to do well in his/her
> category.
> Let's look first at the claims - that allowing 1 point QSOs between
> stations of the same country is unfair to EU and benefits the US
> entirely. Note that SM2EKM comes from EU, where he can run other EU
> stations all day long outside of his country, which gives him 1 point
> per Q. But wait! The group of countries known as the European Union are
> now starting to use a common currency known as the Euro and is being
> called the "United States of Europe". Maybe they would like it better to
> only have 1 point ON ALL BANDS for working each other like the new rule
> for the US. Right now EU gets DOUBLE points on 40/80/160 so that makes
> it even more advantageous for EU to work EU on those bands, and you can
> go on and on like this forever with your own agenda.
>
> The new rule makes sense for everyone- not just the US. There will be
> more US stations on the air for EU to work! This will only make the
> contest more exciting! By the way, I worked over 2300 stations, and
> SM2EKM was not in my log. Why not try the contest with the new rules,
> instead of blindly complaining about something you havn't even tried?
> You can't judge the rules success or failure by listening to a radio -
> you have to operate!
>
> AB2E results: 839 multipliers, 2341 QSOs.
> Total # US stations worked: the breakdown says 24.8% for all of North
> America, so if I take out VE and Carib. let's say 500 Qs with US.
> Total mults from US: 432.
>
> That gives me a net gain of about 65 QSOs out of about 500 stations, of
> which I would have worked at least the 432 for multipliers under the old
> rule. But for a good analysis, let's subtract 500 QSO points from my
> total and recalculate my total under last year's rule. My 5.326Meg score
> would drop to 4.907Meg - a drop of 8%.
> The 1998 SSB WPX World High results were the following:
> #1 EUrope station: GI0KOW - 10,563,579 - #7 WORLD
> #1 US station: KQ2M - 7,443,720 - #17 World
>
> With an 8% US advanage, Bob's (KQ2M) score would increase to 8,039,000,
> and would move up only to #15 WORLD! With the new rule, Bob's score is
> still 24% lower than GI0KOW. Now, where is the advantage to US stations
> with the new rule?
>
> So, pity all those poor Europeans with the unfair rules that favor those
> Americans who make up all the rules!
> 73 & CU in CW WPX from V26E as a multisingle with Brian N3OC!
> Darrell AB2E/V26E
> <<Fil: [CQ-Contest] WPX results vs.TXT>> <<Fil: wpx99sb_Con.Txt>>
> <<Fil: wpx99sb_Mul.Txt>>
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