[CQ-Contest] 1 pointers for CQWW - More data (was: A PROPOSED SOLUTION)

[Richard L. King]

Re-read my post Ken. We actually made a lot more than 300 USA to USA 
QSOs, 613 to be exact. As I said, it was 19% of our total QSOs made.

And yes, I would expect to make more QSOs if the 1 point rule was 
implemented. But since it would effect everyone equally, I don't see 
any major scoring changes shifting to the mid-west. It would just 
eliminate a real contest oddity where you are forced to work USA to 
USA QSOs and not get any value from it other than 6 multipliers.

I can't ethically refuse to work those people since I may be a mult for them.

73, Richard

At 19:30 11/30/2005, Kenneth E. Harker wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:54:19PM +0000, Richard King K5NA wrote:
> >
> > I took this one step further and gave each of the USA QSOs one QSO
> > point and recalculated our score. This brought our score to the 5.2M
> > point range. This was not enough for us to catch W4MYA and move up a
> > notch in the M/M scoring. Our place in the 3830 standings stayed
> > exactly the same, at 10th place.
> >
> > So tell me again how getting 1 QSO point for every same country QSO
> > is going to dramatically alter the flavor of the CQWW Contest. But
> > this time try to convince me with some real data.
>
>If USA-USA QSOs were worth one point apiece, you'd make a lot more
>than 300 USA-USA QSOs during the weekend.
>
>--
>Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
>kenharker at kenharker.com
>http://www.kenharker.com/

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