[VHFcontesting] distance scoring

[kr7o at vhfdx.com]

True, but there is no incentive (aside from a Q point and personal 
pleasure) to work more than one station in each DX grid.  Once I have the 
grid, 20 additional contacts with that grid are the same value as 20 
contacts in my own grid.  I think distance scoring would be 
interesting.  Implementing it can be a challenge.  I wouldn't want to see 
an existing contest changed to distance, but it might be fun to have a 
"contest within a contest" scored by distance.  For most stations it would 
probably have no change in their operating tactics (aside to not give up so 
easy on the weak guys).

Distance scoring will not create a level playing field (a VHF WRTC is 
probably the closest thing level).  The winners on a distance scored 
contest will probably shift though (at least temporarily, until the normal 
players move to a more advantageous location).  A big gun a couple hundred 
miles outside the corridor (K1WHS) will likely clean up.  A perfect example 
is the 10GHz and up contest, the guys in Mexico always win because every 
contact they make is 500-1000km (depending on where they are operate 
from).  What about those of us that are EME capable, that will surely skew 
the results.


At 02:17 PM 6/20/2008 +0000, k4gun at comcast.net wrote:
>The current grid multiplier system rewards distance contacts anyway.



>Steve

73, Robert KR7O/YB2ARO, DM07ba/OI52ee  (ex.  N7STU)
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