[CQ-Contest] Distance-Based Scoring

[Radio K0HB]

Damn, Ward, this post earns you a nomination to the Hall of Fame.




Oh, crap, you're already ensconced.  (Did you hear me cheering from the back of the banquet room?)




73, HB



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On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Ward Silver <hwardsil at gmail.com> wrote:

>  > Incentivising stations to beam to all parts of the world thereby
>  > making it an all inclusive competition (after all it is called a 
> worldwide
>  > contest). There is nothing more frustrating in a contest than hearing
>  > stations who cannot hear you because they are not beaming your way and
>  > especially when they are forlornly calling CQ.
> I made a proposal some years ago for a "coverage" contest that could be 
> run as an overlay to any existing contest.  Extra points would be 
> awarded based on the number of clock hours (0000-0059, 0100-0159, etc) 
> in which you made a QSO with some designated area.  Let's take grid 
> fields, perhaps: New Zealand populates the RE and RF grid fields.  For 
> each clock hour during which I make an RE-field QSO (duplicate or not) 
> on each band (6 band-QSOs available per clock hour) I get, say, 1000 points.
> There are 18 x 18 grid fields (324 total) of which about 80 (based on a 
> casual glance at a map - 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System) could be active 
> from land-based stations.  With 6 bands and 48 hours, that results in 
> 23,040 band-clock-field bonuses to ring up for 23 MEELYUN points.  Sound 
> like fun?
> All contacts could follow the CQ WW exchange rules, for example, and 
> thus be perfectly valid for both the mainline contest and the coverage 
> contest.  Dupes are snipped out by the log checking enzymes without 
> penalty.  Grid fields could be available via a callbook lookup function 
> or something like that.
> We would then change from yelling, "What's your call?" to "What's your 
> grid?" but that's a minor issue :-)
> 73, Ward N0AX
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