Good work Fab, JAs, PYs and VKs would be happy with the new scoring
system :)
Fabian Kurz wrote:
FK> 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.
FK> Only for CQWW CW 2008, which could easily be downloaded from CQWW.com.
FK> The database file advertised earlier here on this reflector was in
FK> some cancerous proprietery format that I could not open.
FK> I just downloaded all CQWW CW 2008 files and analyzed them by the
FK> following simple methodology:
FK> a) For each unique call in all logs, a DXCC was determined by a simple
FK> algorithm based on the CTY.DAT file and saved in a database
FK> b) A matrix with all distances between all known DXCCs was created.
FK> With a total of DXCC^2 entries.
FK> c) Each CQWW CW 2008 log was recalculated by accumulated kilometers
FK> instead if the known CQWW scoring rules.
FK> Here we go, for two interesting categories. The columns denote:
FK> 1. Place, calculated by kilometers
FK> 2. Distance of all QSOs in km
FK> 3. Callsign
FK> 4. Actual position in CQWW 2008 results (if easily found in printed scores)
FK> SINGLE-OP ONE NON-ASSISTED ALL HIGH FIXED
FK> 1. 45028774 V47NT 3
FK> 2. 40775552 ZS4TX (5.8m pts - not in top ten)
FK> 3. 39419835 PZ5TT 4
FK> 4. 38693640 8P5A 5
FK> 5. 36996791 V31WA 6
FK> 6. 35883301 EF8M (1?, DQ)
FK> 7. 32314061 ZF2AM (10)
FK> 8. 32120589 ZY7C --
FK> 9. 32108502 VK2IA ("only" 2.8m points)
FK> 10. 31531618 PW2D --
FK> Top ten scorer 3V8BB (YT1AD, 1st) is at 27238661km, just below K1LZ.
FK> CT3NT (CT1BOH) at 29775030km, below JH4UYB and 5H3EE!
FK> MULTI-OP UNLIMITED ASSISTED ALL HIGH FIXED
FK> 1. 108586599 HC8N 1 (32m)
FK> 2 91206345 3X5A 2 (29m)
FK> 3. 55337998 JA5FDJ
FK> 4. 53295746 KH7X
FK> 5. 53263736 CT9L 3 (23m)
FK> 6. 46385052 KC1XX 4 (15m)
FK> 7. 46236480 JA3YBK
FK> 8. 45277088 K3LR 5 (14m)
FK> 9. 43290689 W3LPL
FK> 10. 41501754 HD2M
FK> 11. 37537522 EE2W (11m)
FK> 12. 36885769 LZ9W (12m)
FK> 13. 35973796 DF0HQ 6 (13m)
FK> (LZ9W and EE2W are 2nd and 3rd in EU respectively; just opposite to
FK> their positions calculated by the distances!)
FK> Some scores may be missing from the results posted here. The format of
FK> the Cabrillo headers for the categories were often not according to
FK> the standard. Unedited results at http://fkurz.net/ham/scores9.txt
FK> Conclusions? None.
FK> CQWW is the name of the game and everyone knows the rules. They're
FK> fine as they are. I like them. They encourage activities from remote
FK> locations and don't let couch potatoes win.
FK> "Fair" rules in a HF contest for everyone are an illusion. In terms of
FK> pure CW skills, you may get as far as you can get to a fair judgement
FK> if you go to an IARU HST competition. But be prepared to be beaten by
FK> some 14 year old girls from ex-USSR countries. Now is that fair? :-)
FK> 73,
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