> As for CQWW, those of us here in Asia who have a perennial propagation
> disadvantage have no chance of winning any of the big boy categories.
Yet
> if you look at score submissions of the last few years, you will
observe an
> upward trend. This is largely because ops are getting on air for fun,
not
> for winning. The serious efforts are largely focused on doing well in
Asia
> standings than World standings. All this with the current rules.
And there we have most of a very workable solution - compete regionally,
report regionally, recognize regionally. Thanks, Prasad.
Trying to come up with some kind of a complex numeric way of equalizing
out propagation and geography is simply not workable. There are too many
dependencies over which a point system has no control. Nor can it
respond to day-to-day propagation variations.
The CQ WW committee already has its hands overly-full dealing with the
worldwide data set - and they do a great job with that!
My advice for those who care is to create regional competitions and
reporting so that the best efforts from a particular region can be
appropriately recognized and encouraged. The scoring data and even the
logs are public - there is no reason this can't be done. How about the
California Cup? The East Asia Challenge? The Black Hole Bouquet?
Regional reporting allows stations to compete against peers - which
causes most of the perceived unhappiness.
73, Ward N0AX
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