Rick

1. Dupes on this band and mode receive a score of ZERO.
2. Stations that lead with TX2 receive a score of ZERO
3. Stations that lead with TX2, but have recently called CQ, will still
receive a score.
The software "remembers" the Grid and will apply it even though the
station led with TX2.
4. If two stations receive the same score, the station that decoded first
will be selected for
the Auto Sequence.
5. Contest wise, it really doesn't matter which station goes into the
queue- they are both worth
the same number of points.
6. If a TX2 station is the only station that replies, they do go into the
Auto Sequence.
7. Most needed was tried with "Best S&P" selection on FT4. It didn't work
very well, and very
few used it. I have adopted the Active stations List as my normal mode to
use.
8. The ASL was adopted as an aid for ARRL IDC. It can also be used for WW
Digi and other
FT contests that use Grid Squares of a distance based scoring.

Dennis W1uE


On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 2:28 AM Rick Tavan <rtavan@...> wrote:

Max Dist will be a handy option. Please consider these comments:

1. In a brief test, I only got two responses on the same cycle once.

But

the caller chosen for reply was more than 1000 km *closer* than the

one

passed over. It was not only less distant but also would have scored
lower
in a contest. I'll watch to see if this repeats.
2. Isn't "Max Dist" a bit of a misnomer? Since it's calculated based

on

contest scoring (500 km increments), it's quite possible for two
callers to
calculate to the same score and therefore be selected on the basis of
decode order even though the second decoded is more distant than the
first.
3. What happens when some responders answer a CQ with Tx2, not

including

their grid? Do they get priority, do the Tx1 callers get priority, or

do

you maintain a database of per-country central grids and make a coarse
guess at distance? Or something else?
4. Wouldn't "Most Needed" (based on color priority) be a more useful
selection criterion than "Max Dist," regardless of how the latter is
implemented? Actually, I think both criteria would be useful for
different
situations.

73,

/Rick N6XI

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Rick Tavan
Truckee and Saratoga, CA