[3830] IARU N4KG SO CW HP

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                    IARU HF World Championship

Call: N4KG
Operator(s): N4KG
Station: N4KG

Class: SO CW HP
QTH: ALA
Operating Time (hrs): 8

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
-------------------------------------
  160:    0     0       0       0
   80:   33     0      10       0
   40:  157     0      39       0
   20:  121     0      37       0
   15:   26     0      14       0
   10:    9     0       6       0
-------------------------------------
Total:  346     0     106       0  Total Score = 80,560

Club: Alabama Contest Group

Comments:

I find it hard to get motivated to take this contest seriously with it's
unfairly punitive scoring system.  How can anyone justify awarding only 1 point
for QSO's within your zone while awarding 3 points to your competitors in
adjacent zones for contacts within your zone?  It's RIDICULOUS.  And what's
with only 1 point for the HQ stations, most of whom are in Europe, while QSO's
with non-HQ stations in Europe are 5 points each.  Also RIDICULOUS.

Then there is the issue of counting HQ stations as MULTIPLIERS.
What's with that?  

There can probably never be a scoring system that is totally fair in awarding
QSP points by Zone or Continent, but this 1/3/5 point system is grossly unfair
and punitive to stations in high population zones.

The RTTY contests seem to do the best job of point allocation with 1 point for
ones own COUNTRY, 2 points for ones own CONTINENT, and 3 points for Other
Continents.

The Above, Lousy Conditions for DX, and 2 hours of Severe Thunderstorms
overhead limited my participation to only a few hours.  Most contacts were
worked at 100 Watts, with a 1 hour HP run on 40M and HP needed to raise LR5F on
80M.

Tom  N4KG in North Alabama, almost as far from EU as possible in Zone 8.


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