[CQ-Contest] Establishing a contest within a contest

[RT Clay]

This is always brought up as an argument why distance-based scoring shouldn't be considered- "if the idea is applied to xxx contest, nothing much changes." The problem is that the location defined by the CQWW exchange (zone and country) is not sufficiently specific to define the location of a station on a length scale that is significant for propagation. For example, stations in west FL and ME are both USA, zone 5. Do they have similar distances and conditions working Europe on the low bands? No. For distance-based scoring to work, it has to include a location which is precise enough to have a higher correlation with propagation differences. For a HF DX contest, I suspect that is more like a grid field than a CQ/ITU zone.

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