[CQ-Contest] Establishing a contest within a contest

[Tom Francis]

I came late to this discussion (my bad), but it is done all the time in
State QPs.  For example, Kansas QP has an opportunity to do a clean
sweep of 1X1 calls, Florida is the same, other QPs have little contests
within the QP event.

It is workable - just need to figure out something worthwhile to shoot
for.

Tom, W1TEF/4

On 11/13/2015 10:31 AM, RT Clay wrote:
> 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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