Without extra credit for distance, there's less incentive to work the world.
Countries and continents with large population would have less incentive to
work outside their borders, except to get individual mults. I don't think it
would be as interesting a contest. CQ WW was clearly designed to reward
participants for working stations outside their country and continent.
73, Dick WC1M
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Geiger [mailto:aa5jg@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 12:38 AM
> To: 'David Kopacz'; cq-contest@contesting.com; wc1m73@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Is it time to reevaluate CQWW Scoring Rules?
>
> Or just 2 points per QSO, regardless of distance, continent, or country.
>
> 73s John AA5JG
>
> --- On Fri, 12/4/09, Dick Green WC1M <wc1m73@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Dick Green WC1M <wc1m73@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Is it time to reevaluate CQWW Scoring Rules?
> > To: "'David Kopacz'" <david.kopacz@aspwebhosting.com>, cq-
> contest@contesting.com
> > Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 7:40 PM
> > Anamolies like this are inevitable
> > with a continent-based scoring system. I
> > think the only way to fix it is to use a scheme based on
> > actual distance,
> > such as one QSO point per 1000 kilometers of distance, or
> > something similar.
> > It would be relatively simple to implement such a system
> > with today's
> > computer-based logging and log-checking programs.
> >
> > 73, Dick WC1M
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: David Kopacz [mailto:david.kopacz@aspwebhosting.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:33 PM
> > > To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> > > Subject: [CQ-Contest] Is it time to reevaluate CQWW
> > Scoring Rules?
> > >
> > > What's wrong with this picture?
> > >
> > > EF8M(RD3AF)
> > 7374 131 409
> > 48 11,888,100
> > > V47NT(N2NT)
> > 7402 135 457
> > 48 11,231,424
> > >
> > > Let's see, V47NT has more Q's more zones and
> > significantly more
> > > countries, but a lower score!
> > >
> > > So basically, he out-performed EF8M in all aspects and
> > still loses.
> > >
> > > I think it's time for an evaluation of the scoring
> > rules.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> > >
> > > David ~ KY1V
> >
> >
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