[CQ-Contest] Re: Public reporting of UBN data

[Alan Kaul]

> From: i4jmy at migate.ampr.org
>     
>     I think the most of partecipants not only will continue to enter
>   the CQWW contest if UBN/NIL are of public domain, but they will do it
>   with confidence, appreciating the "benefits".  I can't wait until all
>   logs, not only UBN/NIL files, will be of public domain, possibly soon
>   after the contest end.  
>   e-mail: i4jmy at migate.ampr.org  
> 

I believe that at the very least, contest sponsors should consider
publishing both the entrant's ''claimed score'' and the "final score."  To
publish one without the other is to omit a frame of reference against which
the effort can be measured.

We all ought to be striving for a UBN/NIL rate of a fraction of 1 percent. 
I think it could be valuable to contestants to know if they placed where
they did (that is, in relationship to others), because of a good or bad
UBN/NIL score.  We ought to be making contest heroes out of people with low
rates.  Perhaps there ought to be a trophy awarded for ''lowest UBN/NIL.''

Current rules don't throw out uniques -- but I'd tend to be somewhat
suspicious of the score of someone who finished ahead of me with a very
high percentage of uniques.

I'm not trolling for flames -- but I think we ought to discuss this issue
at length.

Alan  Kaul, W6RCL, LaCanada, CA
w6rcl at amsat.org
http://home.att.net/~alan.kaul/qrp.html

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