[CQ-Contest] DOES COMMON SCORING ENCOURAGE MEDIOCRITY ?

[David Thompson]

Trent,

I was looking at QST magazines from the late 1940's and a station could be 
listed on say all band and then 20 and 10 (no 15 back then).  Confusing at 
first until you got to understand.

I feel that the operator needs to select his category.  This is only fair 
and it is sort of like the 400 meter runner who might have a time to win the 
100 or 200 meter races.  CQ does list out the band scores for the top 10 
which you can use to compare a single band score to a Top SO AB or Multi. 
The contest sponsor should not try to plug the score in anywhere but in the 
category/band the contestant puts in his summary.

Doing as you suggest would confuse matters.  I also have never understood 
how a 160 entry can be a tri-bander, single wire entry.  Should not this be 
for a SO AB entry?

73 Dave K4JRB

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Subject: [CQ-Contest] DOES COMMON SCORING ENCOURAGE MEDIOCRITY ?


> What are the common thoughts on contests scoring both the ALL BAND and 
> SINGLE BAND scores of an individual operator ??
>
> For example the contest scores the entry category of Single Operator All 
> band and also puts the individual band scores into the best for each band-
>
> Say a good SOAB - has a 80M single band score of 350,000 and and ALL Band 
> score of 3,500,000 - both scores are listed in the results..would this 
> confuse matters ?
>
> Would it mean the single band Tribander Single element 160M entrants are 
> actually competing against someone else ??
>
> Trent VK4TI
>
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