[CQ-Contest] DX Contest scoring schemes

[K8MR via CQ-Contest]

Sounds like yet another variant use for Fudge's Factor, F, one of the basic tools of engineering:




F = C/Y


Where C = the correct answer
and      Y = your answer


With proper values of Fudge's Factor, nothing can go wrong.




73 - Jim  K8MR






-----Original Message-----
From: George Fremin III <geoiii at kkn.net>
To: Dave Mueller N2NL <n2nl at n2nl.net>
Cc: cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Fri, May 29, 2015 1:18 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] DX Contest scoring schemes



Final Score X (CORRECTOR) = Final Corrected Score
> 
> Where (CORRECTOR) is
some handicap value that accounts for disadvantages 
> in location, antennas,
power, equipment, and operator skill.

Yes!

The correction factor.

Seems
I have pointed this out every 10 years or
so.


http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/1993-06/msg00020.html


http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2011-06/msg00280.html