Topband: ARRL LOTW and More

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

And while you're at it, why shouldn't SO Assisted be separated from 
Multi-single?  That is a relic of the earliest days of packet, and 
hasn't made sense for at least 20 years.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 12/18/2012 6:26 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 12/18/2012 3:11 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>>
>> ARRL 160 meter contest is based on *Sections*. 
>
> Only in part  -- it's also based on DX entities as multipliers, and 
> US/VE stations get 2.5X the point credit for a QSO with a DX station.
>
>>  It makes no earthly sense to change the rules
>> for one or two sections after thirty plus years of the contest. 
>
> If the Rules are poorly conceived (and they are), it certainly does 
> make sense to change them.  But the needed changes go far beyond 
> equalizing KP2 and VP2V -- the Rules give Zone 5 a 10:1 scoring 
> advantage over Zone 3 (and about half that over the Midwest and Great 
> Plains), and make the contest so boring for Zone 3 that most of us 
> avoid it.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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