[CQ-Contest] Is it a time to change rules for HQ stnsin IARUcontest ?

[Bob Henderson]

You make a good point Doug but something needs to be done if competition 
between HQ operations is to acquire any credibility.

Your suggestion for establishing a "Uniques" threshold for contacts between 
HQ and other stations in the same territory appears similar in approach to 
the technique used at WRTC.  This might be a good way to deal with the issue 
but is dependent, as you suggest, upon the practicalities associated with 
it's introduction to log checking process.

Restructuring the scoring system to substantially reduce credit for these 
contacts, might be an option to reduce the flag waving effect, though it 
would at best ameliorate not cure.

Bob, 5B4AGN


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Smith W9WI" <w9wi at earthlink.net>
To: "cq-contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Is it a time to change rules for HQ stnsin 
IARUcontest ?


> On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 04:02, Bob Henderson wrote:
>> It could be addressed by attributing nil points to contacts between HQ 
>> and
>> other stations in the territory they represent.
>
> This would be a SERIOUS problem for HQ stations in large countries
> and/or with large ham populations.  (i.e., USA, Russia, Japan)  I don't
> know that we would have bothered with 160 meters at all at W1AW/4 if we
> couldn't work W's for point credit.
>
> It would be an even more serious problem for the IARU HQ station which
> could then work almost *nobody*!
>
> I could see disallowing credit for contacts between a HQ station and
> other stations in the same country *if* the other stations are
> "uniques", i.e. worked fewer than some threshold number (say, ten?)
> other stations besides the HQ operation.  I'll bet it'd be a real
> nightmare for the log checkers though.
> -- 
> Doug Smith W9WI
> Pleasant View (Nashville), TN  EM66
> http://www.w9wi.com
>
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