[CQ-Contest] DX Contest scoring schemes

[Ed Sawyer]

N2IC won CQWW SSB from NM.  

If we are done with those great efforts that were fliers to the normal data, I think we can discuss more meaningful comparisons.

Ed

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From: W0MU [mailto:w0mu at w0mu.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 3:39 PM
To: sawyered at earthlink.net; cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] DX Contest scoring schemes

K1ZZ won SO Unlimited. It is much easier to win SS from other places than it is CQ WW.  Let try to compare apples to apples.

On 5/28/2015 9:06 AM, Ed Sawyer wrote:
> But Hans…the contest is unfair to us W1s.  We need to “level the playing field” so that a W1 with stacked monobanders has a chance of winning.
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> Distance based scoring, inversely actually, would be much fairer to W1s in SS.  What say you?
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> Ed  N1UR
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> From: Radio K0HB [mailto:kzerohb at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 10:55 AM
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> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] DX Contest scoring schemes
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> Ya wanna fight, Pilgrim?
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> Don't you DARE mess with SS!  One of the tiny handful of major contests where you actually need to be able to COPY something.  Confounds the "fie nigh foe" crowd.
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> Besides, Charly and most of the rest of the world are ineligible to play, so the jeremiads would continue.
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> 73, de Hans, K0HB
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> ​"Just a Boy and His Broom"
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> On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 08:49, Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net>, wrote:
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> If you insist on a contest that is existing be changed to try it, I 
> would suggest the major contest with the absolute worst growth rate 
> and demographics currently operating, ARRL Sweepstakes.
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