[CQ-Contest] Establishing a contest within a contest

[Tobias Wellnitz]

I wrote a convenience class around the QRZ.com API in Python (and some
other lookup services).
It's easy to use and very well tested (250+ unit tests).

Code:
https://github.com/dh1tw/pyhamtools

Documentation:
http://pyhamtools.readthedocs.org

Tobias
EA4/DH1TW

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Randy Thompson K5ZD <k5zd at charter.net>
wrote:

> CQ zones divide the world into 40 arbitrary groupings.  Perhaps that is
> close enough to get started.
>
> Or you could use ITU zones.  That divides the world into 75 (?) zones.  The
> cty files put out by AD1C include the ITU zone info for most calls.
> Better?
> Hard to say.
>
> Or you could use the qrz.com API to get the grid for each call.  Maybe it
> isn't 100% accurate for that call for that weekend, but it could be used to
> test the hypothesis.
>
> The real challenge here is motivation.  Someone has to do something to get
> the ball rolling.
>
> Randy, K5ZD
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> > RT Clay
> > Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 3:32 PM
> > To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Establishing a contest within a contest
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > TorN4OGW
> >
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