[CQ-Contest] CQWW madness

[Jim Stahl]

I was not aware of the Volta RTTY’s scoring grid, but they are on the right track.

http://www.contestvolta.it/point%20table.htm

The particular values are greatly exaggerated, but they do avoid the weird discontinuities such as that between zone 8 vs. zone 9. Polar paths don’t seem to be reflected; zone 4 has the same points to Z18 and Z 35, although the 4-35 path is much easier.

Things could be refined even further by having different values for different bands. A QSO to VK is far easier on 20 or 10 (when there are sunspots) than on 80.

Use of such scoring won’t make W6 a primo DX contest location, but it would give some comfort to those is far away places like HS and VK.


73  -  Jim  K8MR



On Jul 24, 2016, at 10:32 PM, Ryan Noguchi via CQ-Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> My postings seem to be disappearing into a black hole of apathy too, so I feel your pain. However, we're talking about a DX contest here, while you're talking about scoring profiles that flatten out a mere two grid squares away. I'm not surprised there were few or no responses. 
> If scoring strictly proportional to distance isn't able to adequately capture the difficulty of a particular circuit, there are other options. The Volta RTTY contest defines a lookup table that establishes point values for each pairwise combination of CQ zones, ranging from 2 points (within the same zone) to 55. These point values do not appear to be based solely on distance. 
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