On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Dennis McAlpine <dbmcalpine@earthlink.net> wrote:
Certainly there is one certainty if the rules
are changed, i.e. the old scores (or the new ones) will no longer mean anything
compared to the new scores. Is that what we want?
It's not what *I* would want, but apparently that would just be considered collateral damage to the folks that want to radically change the scoring.
Why not simply
start a new contest using a distance based scoring and see what happens and
leave the ARRL DX Test as is?.
That certainly makes the most sense, but I think the opposing viewpoint would have to do with there already being a sizable number of major contests and no room for another one or how there would be little activity for a contest starting from scratch or without a major sponsor or something along those lines, I would certainly welcome a new contest using distance-based scoring - AFAIK there may even be one out there I don't know about. Maybe the Boring ARC (N6TR) should take on sponsorship of an HF version of the Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge...they seem to have had good results getting that contest going and are already geared up for that type scoring.
I've thought about it a good bit over the past few days and can see no real benefit to changing the scoring.
73 de Lee