[VHFcontesting] Compare: IARU Region 1 6-meter Contest

[Dan_K9ZF]

>Scoring:
>1. 1-point per DX km, truncated to an integer plus 1, calculated center-to-center of the Grid6's.
>2. Exchanging Grid4 makes the contact invalid.
>3. Distance calculations are based on sherical geometery using a "degree to km conversion" of 111.2.


Sounds good.  I like the idea of 1 point per km.  Although I would suggest adding weighting for the upper bands.   It's much more difficult to make a 200 km contact on 2304 than six meters...

How about a an option to log the center of the 4 digit grid in case the 6 digit grid is not known?  So if I work a station in EM78 that doesn't know his 6 digit, I can log him as EM78gg or whatever the actual center is:-)  This will "mis-calculate" the score a bit, but might help solve the transition to 6 digit grids...



73
Dan
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