That sounds like one would need to have a magazine devoted strictly to
contesting scores... Or join a regional group that keeps track of such things,
some of the bigger clubs do keep track.
I do not see either of the US publications devoting resources to that kind of
detail. One could easily argue that they are swamped as it is and with cycle 24
revving up, more logs most likely can be expected.
These are all worth considering, but one needs to keep in mind the resources
required to accomplish this on an international scale.
73,
Julius
Julius Fazekas
N2WN
Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html
http://groups.google.com/group/tcg1?hl=en
Tennessee QSO Party
http://www.tnqp.org/
Elecraft K2 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366
Elecraft K3/100 #1875
--- On Wed, 12/8/10, Charles Harpole <k4vud@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Charles Harpole <k4vud@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] a little more fairness?
To: sm6lrr@gmail.com, "Florida ContestGroup" <fcg@kkn.net>, "Contest Internet"
<cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 11:08 AM
Ok, and good arguement Mats.... BUT, if an overall win is not important, then
why is that what is the big news in the magazines and score reports? IF
contests are all about personal best scores, about local wins, and about who in
what country scored highest, then why is there total stress on THE TOP TEN OR
TOP TWENTY?
When the magazines and sites start to forground and highlight personal best
scores, local wins, and who in what geographical area scored high, THEN I will
agree with your statements. American contests are for Americans, of course,
but the sponsors of contests can infuse more satisfaction for ALL participants
by getting off the idea of TOP SCORERS overall.
de HS0ZCW
Charles Harpole k4vud@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:56:56 +0300
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] a little more fairness?
From: sm6lrr@gmail.com
To: vk4ti@yahoo.com
CC: cq-contest@contesting.com; k4vud@hotmail.com
If we start to change points for different zones, this will create a huge mess.
See CQWW as a contest where you first of all challenge your own previous
results by building better antennas, increasing your own operating skills,
learning to adapt to different conditions on different bands, search more
efficiently for multipliers etc etc. When you think you have improved your own
skills enough, start comparing with your neighbours in the same city, country,
zone, continent... If you really want to win the CQWW contest, you need to also
analyze which geographical location is the ideal. The globe is as it is... I
know for sure, regardless of antennas and skills, to win SOAB from Sweden or
from Moscow will be impossible. BUT, there are always national records in
different categories to aim for.
Enjoy contesting, develop your station and your skills - and most of all,
realize that we will never be able to achieve WRTC 2010 equal conditions for
all contesters in CQWW ;) Have fun! Contesting is exciting, but not the most
deadly serious in life...
73 de R3/SM6LRR, Mats
2010/12/7 <vk4ti@yahoo.com>
Charles for years the contesting community down under has said we cant compete
with the Hawaiians for Oceania -
Recently from the antipodes the ZL8X team did just that - competed and broke
the Oceania MM record - why ? They had very good ops, a good location and even
better antenna.
There are only a handful of good stations in Oceania - I am one of the guys
that put together the VK4KW team and we have done heaps of work to get results
and are on constant improvement - there has been two years steady improvement
and at least another two years before we hit our straps..
The scores from 9M6AAC over the years say to me that your neck of the woods is
fine - you just need to make a station that works - just like everyone else
does..
Start with beverages on 160 70 and 40 and work from there - I am sure you will
be happy with the results
--- On Mon, 6/12/10, Charles Harpole <k4vud@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Charles Harpole <k4vud@hotmail.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] a little more fairness?
To: "Contest Internet" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Received: Monday, 6 December, 2010, 10:34 PM
A modest proposal.... Could the contesting community consider cutting some
slack to a neglected part of the contesting world, specifically CQ Zones 22,
26, 27 and 28, South Asia area. I suggest doubling the point count for working
stations in this area from outside the zones.
The reason is that (1) most beams are from NA to EU or the reverse or are on JA
(these headings are a long way from S. Asia usually), (2) many very high power
stations clustered in EU tend to drown out S. Asia to all in EU, (3) the start
time of 0000Z gives very poor first hours to S. Asia stations due to prop at
those hours, and (5) there are just not as many one-hop stations to work within
these and near-by zones and (5) not many stations in S. Asia do contests partly
due to what is listed here.
The playing field is just not flat, not nearly, and looks more like a mountain
between S. Asia and the large collections of contesters in EU and NA. So, I
ask this be considered because it will also liven up contests and add more
challenges. I will certainly encourage S. Asia stations to participate more
and longer.
73, Thanks, HS0ZCW
Charles Harpole
k4vud@hotmail.com
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