[CQ-Contest] CQ WW SSB. Mathematics

[David Pruett]

Nodir,

This *may* have to do with penalties and whether the penalties are shown 
deducted from the published total.

For example, I work 1000 QSOs and 100 multiplers, and have ten bad QSOs 
which cause ten penalties.  Should the contest writeup show 990 QSOs or 980 
QSOs for my score?

I do the logchecking for the ARRL 160 and ARRL 10 contests.  I have 
discussed this with the ARRL contest manager N1ND and we have settled that 
the line score should show the number of good QSOs you made.  However your 
score is based on the QSO points from those QSOs minus the penalties of the 
penalty QSOs.  In the example above, we would show 990 QSOs and 100 
multipliers in the line score, but if QSOs were all one point apiece then 
the score would be 98,000.

I am not a member of the CQWW committee so I would not presume to speak for 
them.  There are several logical ways to look at this, but I do not know 
how they chose to do it.

Dave/K8CC


At 01:49 PM 7/30/2005, you wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I am very curious how final results in CQ WW SSB were calculated.
>
>Jim CN2R and Al D4B showed incredible results. My congratulations for both
>of them!
>
>But what I see from results
>
>CN2R  8655   172   668   20,938,680
>D4B     8799  172   674   20,433,438
>
>D4B has more QSO's, more MULTS. Results is less than CN2R for about 500K.
>
>They are both in Africa and it is hard to presume that D4B worked much more
>other 1-point Africans. I know that Al worked 174 stations from AF and Jim
>about 50 less.
>
>I can't see where my mistake could be in my calculations. Any ideas?
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Nodir Tursoon-Zadeh, EY8MM
>http://www.qsl.net/ey8mm
>
>
>
>
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