[CQ-Contest] CQWW madness

[Jeff Stai]

Again, here is an existing distance based 80-10m contest. Instead of
conjecturing you could just try it this October and see how it plays.
Scoring is weighted with more points given for the lower bands:

http://home.arcor.de/waldemar.kebsch/The_Makrothen_Contest/The_Makrothen_Contest.html

Points are km and 40m contacts are multiplied by 1.5 and 80m by 2.0.

This contest is supported by the major logging programs and I expect it
would be relatively simple to adapt to other modes.

I don't know that reverse weighing for nearby high band contacts makes
sense. It would tend to favor stations that happen to have altitude and a
population within line of sight. I'd love it since I operate at
6500feet/2000m ASL, but that seems counter to what is desired here.

73 jeff wk6i

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 8:09 AM, Jim Stahl via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> > 73, Ryan AI6DO
> >
> >
>
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