[CQ-Contest] DREAMING

[Jim Neiger]

Following N4ZR's admonition, I'll re-label this notion as DREAMING.

A scoring system for CQ WW DX contests that I  think could really work is idealistically simple:

QSO's in YOUR country       1 point

QSO's EVERYWHERE else    3 points


Encourages activity:  (this would be good)

Removes flagrant biases tied to continental boundaries

No longer penalizes Asians who must work someone thousands of kilometers distant for one point (maybe encourages our JA friends to participate again?)

Eliminates unfair advantages that Zone 33, 35, 36, 09, 10 have today

Maybe encourages more expeditions to rarely-on Caribbean and Central American countries?


Dreaming.

Meanwhile, I'll look for you all from Hawaii KH7Q 
 (or is that KH7 Qure??)  on 20 meters next weekend.  
Sometimes there's maybe more about contests than points?  I'll contemplate that while making the drive along Oahu's beautiful north shore.

Vy  73

Jim Neiger   N6TJ

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jimk8mr at aol.com 
  To: n6tj at sbcglobal.net ; CQ-Contest at contesting.com 
  Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 7:56 AM
  Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Real Time Scoreboards


    
  In a message dated 10/20/2006 8:09:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, n6tj at sbcglobal.net writes:

    Why not REALLY improve the contest by seriously considering remedying the 
    ancient, unfair, archaic "points per QSO vs. your continent" nonsense.



  There are some things in the world, like the USA Electoral College and the CQWW 1-2-3  point system, that would never be designed into a new system, but with which we seem to be stuck forever.  So it appears voters in Wyoming and Delaware and contesters in Zone 9 and Zone 33 will continue to be more equal than the rest of us.

  Unlike elections, however, in ham radio contests there need not be only one winner.  There can be multiple winners based on multiple sets of rules. Just take the raw material of what a person worked (from a Cabrillo log) , and score it in several ways.

  Obviously, it would still be scored in the "CQWW Classic" mode, using today's rules.

  From there use one's imagination.  My suggestion is a scoring system where points are based on zone to zone distances. The point values would not need not be integers, so 1.6 or 2.226 points for a qso would be possible and normal.  For example, something like

  QSO Points = 1 + (Distance/10000)

  where Distance is the zone center to zone center distance in kilometers.

  So qso points would vary from 1 (your own zone) to about 3 (at the antipodes). Score it up with the current multiplier structure, and you have the results of the "CQWW 21st Century" competition.

  Having done the work of preparing logs for processing, dupe/bust checking, etc., there would be very little extra work to produce an alternate set of scores, with results published online.  

  Watsa OMs?


  73  -  Jim   K8MR