[CQ-Contest] Modest proposal for scoring CQWW

[lstoskopf at cox.net]

Do like some of the VHF contests:  Signal report is meaningless.  Countries are (according to some) something left over from the dirty past.  Exchange is simply your 6 digit grid square. Number of contacts don't count.  I remember in one VHF contest (which happened to be the night of a radio club meeting) where the mic got passed around the group.  With modern computers it should be easy to just compute the distance of each contact and add them up.  Guy with the most miles (kilometers) wins.  It would make site selection a real science in picking where to go for the dxpedetion.   Oh yes, the grid would show the country, state, etc. so getting data for WAZ, DXCC, WAS, etc. is also a snap.

N0UU  from the Zero Land Dark Hole