[CQ-Contest] CQWW is an unfair Contest -- A solutiion!

[N4ZR]

You have altogether too much time on your hands, Mike.  Actually, it's 
not a bad idea, but they still need to do something about the CQWW 
exchange. With zones, it's just a callsign-copying contest.  I'm for 
serial numbers.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 12/3/2020 6:08 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
> by Mike VE9AA
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> My 2nd solution for you guys in a week. Ho Ho Ho
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> (all this for free and with a smile (behind my red & white mask too)
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> If you're an intelligent retired West Coaster who feels that they are
> severely disadvantaged by the scoring system used in  the CQWW and that they
> ignore your pleas for a level playing field here's what you do:
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> You send Tree N6TR a respectful email asking him to please run the open logs
> that CQ makes public every year and run them through the Stew Perry contest
> aggregator and rescore the CQWW contest based only on distances and # of
> Q's.(no multipliers) (I imagine there are other contests out there based on
> distances as well)
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> Those of you who've made more Q's and/or longer distance Q's will score
> higher than W1's working EA1's.
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> ie: a W6 to Japan QSO will be worth more than a VO1-EI7 QSO.
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> You become happy.
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> You then rally contest sponsors to make an overlay to CQWW (or ARRLDX, RDX,
> WAE etc_) based on this new algorithm.
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> Problem solved !
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> That, or you can keep complaining about it. Your guys' choice.
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> Ho Ho Ho
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> Mike VE9AA
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> I agree that the CQ-WW's are good contests, but I also think consideration
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> should be given to exploring alternate ways of scoring.  These could be
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> developed and perfected over time and done in parallel with traditional
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> scoring, to keep everyone more-or-less happy.
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> If nothing else, alternative scoring would be an interesting experiment and
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> think all participants would be interested, even if they didn't approve.
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> 73,
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> Ken, AB1J
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> Mike, Coreen & Corey
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> Keswick Ridge, NB
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