[CQ-Contest] DX Contest scoring schemes

Richard F DiDonna NN3W richnn3w at verizon.net
Thu May 28 22:48:16 EDT 2015


And as was noted, N2IC won the big enchilada in CQWW SSB in 2013....

73 Rich NN3W

On 5/28/2015 3:38 PM, W0MU wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>> Distance based scoring, inversely actually, would be much fairer to 
>> W1s in SS.  What say you?
>>
>>
>> Ed  N1UR
>>
>>
>> From: Radio K0HB [mailto:kzerohb at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 10:55 AM
>> To: sawyered at earthlink.net
>> Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] DX Contest scoring schemes
>>
>>
>> Ya wanna fight, Pilgrim?
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Besides, Charly and most of the rest of the world are ineligible to 
>> play, so the jeremiads would continue.
>>
>>
>>>> 73, de Hans, K0HB
>>
>> ​"Just a Boy and His Broom"
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 08:49, Ed Sawyer 
>> <sawyered at earthlink.net>, wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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