[CQ-Contest] CW-WPX & CQWW scoring

[Richard L. King]

No contest organizers should ever adopt a rule that puts stations in a
position where they MUST make zero point QSOs to remain competitive. The
WPX requires you to work mults in your same country for zero points while
the CQ WW also requires you to work your same country for the multiplier
and/or zone. This is plain bad.

Consider that one station can work another and the the first station's
score increases while the second station's score stays the same. This is
the ONLY reason that some stations just won't log the other. Proof of this
can be found from the NIL numbers in the UBN reports that we now have
available for the CQWW. An unequal value QSO should never happen under a
good set of scoring rules.

I don't care how the contest organizers fix it, but it should be fixed. Who
cares about scoring history as the contest if for the enjoyment of the here
and now.

73, Richard

K5NA at BGA.COM
http://www.realtime.net/~k5na


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