This has been an ongoing problem with the IARU scoring for years ! Having
been victimized by this sloppiness many times, I have privately made this
problem well known to N1ND, N7NG, and his predecessor K5FUV. Lot of good it
has done ! Guess it's time to go public.
73,
Steve London, N2IC ---- Zone 7
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
To: "SP5UAF" <tomek@sp5zcc.waw.pl>
Cc: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] IARU HQ stations - final results question
> Along the same lines, the initial results for the 2002 IARU HF World
> Championship scored W1AW/5 wrong. The QSO points for W1AW/5 were computed
> as if the station were in ITU zone 8 (which is where W1AW actually is) but
> the W1AW/5 operation took place entirely in ITU zone 7 (central Texas,
> to be specific) which made a BIG difference in the final score, as W1AW/5
> worked a lot more zone 8 stations than it worked zone 7 stations.
>
> Now, if an HQ station happens to operate from multiple ITU zones
> or even continents (which has happened,) the score computation is even
> more complicated, and more likely to be erroneously reported - especially
> if the HQ station doesn't make a real effort to communicate the unusual
> situation to the log checkers. Hopefully, in a few more years of computer
> log checking with this contest, most of these special cases with the
> HQ stations will have been accounted for in the process. Or, maybe we
> should just get rid of HQ stations and all the silliness therein, and
> make the contest results easier to generate :-)
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:34:03PM +0100, SP5UAF wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thanks to ARRL we already know the top scores of Single-Op and
> > Multi-Op stations as well as complete results of HQ stations in the
> > IARU HF 2003.
> > Well, we all know that usually final scores are reduced comparing to
> > claimed scores. No wonder, we all make mistakes receiving or typing
> > callsigns, serial numbers etc.
> >
> > But claimed and final scores can be surprising. Claimed scores were as
> > follows for IARU HF 2003 (top ten):
> > Call QSOs Mult hr Score
> > CW SSB
> > R7HQ 16701 423 22,317,903
> > DA0HQ 19085 473 24 17,869,467
> > GB5HQ 6400 6487 448 24 17,074,624
> > TM0HQ 5873 6153 434 24 16,816,198
> > OL3HQ 5123 5677 428 24 15,807,324
> > SN0HQ 7809 7874 456 24 15,752,520
> > IU2HQ 5375 5633 443 24 13,300,189
> > YT0HQ 5648 5429 445 24 13,070,095
> > S50HQ 5054 4901 448 24 12,433,792
> > PA6HQ 4834 4540 406 24 11,646,110
> > SK9HQ 2234 1767 327 24 4,140,147
> >
> > And we have the following final scores (top 13) from the ARRL page
> > (http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2003/IARU.pdf)
> > R7HQ 20,817,380
> > IUxHQ 17,824,836
> > DA0HQ 16,507,800
> > GB5HQ 15,705,914
> > TM0HQ 15,394,425
> > SN0HQ 14,483,480
> > EM5HQ 13,425,363
> > 9A0HQ 13,085,082
> > YT0HQ 11,662,121
> > S50HQ 11,311,048
> > OL3HQ 11,254,590
> > OH2HQ 10,880,332
> > PA6HQ 10,689,448
> >
> > It's a pity we do not know multiplier and points data details of the
> > final results. But we can see two big differences in claimed/final
> > scores.
> >
> > The first one is OL3HQ. Their claimed score was much bigger then the
> > final one. I think that they made a mistake in the claimed score.
> > Perhaps by mistake the "15" WAZ zone number was input in the log
> > instead of "28" (ITU zone). It could make such a difference in the
> > result.
> >
> > The second situation is with IUxHQ. Final score is about 4,5 milion
> > points better to claimed score. Perhaps Italian HQ operators lost
> > about 2.000 contacts in their claimed score. I think such a difference
> > in the QSO number can produce about 4,5 mln points in the final score.
> > Maybe we will be able to see the complete data (QSOs, QSO points,
> > multiplier) soon after the complete results are published. But perhaps
> > in the meantime someone from the Italian HQ team can give us some
> > light in the subject.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > 73
> > Tom
> > SP5UAF
> >
> >
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