[PaQSO] Scoring question

[Peter Albright]

Hi Tom and all,

I appreciated Tom's asking his question, as I had asked a similar question a
few weeks ago but didn't get quite the enthusiastic response Tom did. :)

I have been scratching my head on this, and have (only) two thoughts:

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Thought #1: According to the "new math" concepts of the 1960's, the
principle of the distributive property of multiplication over addition tells
us that it doesn't matter whether you add your Qs together before you
multiply by sections+counties, or do the multiplication first and then add.
To demonstrate:

3 * (1 + 2 +3) = (3*1) + (3*2) + (3*3) = 18

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Thought #2: What advantage besides the 500 point per county does the mobile
have? Simple: I can make far more contacts because I am (almost) free of the
prohibition against dupes. 

If I were not a mobile, a fixed station would not want to work me ten times
on 40CW because nine of those Qs would be dupes, and would be thrown out.
However, since I am mobile, the fixed station can work me ten times and get
ten Qs even if the counties are not new. This is a symmetrical advantage. I
can work the fixed station ten times from ten different counties, and get a
Q point for each one.

The activity advantage to the mobile or rover over the fixed station, is
that the PAQP does not have an infinite pool of participants. It is a
question of activity rather than of competition, because we are in different
classes, but it sure does keep the mobile or rover station a lot busier!
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Does this make any sense at all?

Peter, AA2AD 

-----Original Message-----
From: paqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:paqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Tom Williams
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 6:52 AM
To: paqso at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [PaQSO] Scoring question

Wow! I didn't intend for my question to stir up such a heated debate. I just
forgot how the scoring worked and asked for clarification. However, there
sure has been a lot of activity on the reflector lately vs. the silence
after the PaQP concluded, and that's good.

Concerning county line stations, I don't see anything wrong with the PaQP
being "unique" in the way it handles them. 

73,
Tom N2CU <><
K3 #3582