Contest Score Calculator

Because final score is calculated as total QSO points multiplied by unique multipliers plus any bonus, one additional multiplier multiplies every QSO point you've already banked, while one additional QSO only adds that QSO's own point value times your current multiplier count. The calculator quantifies this directly: Value of +1 Multiplier equals your current total QSO points, while Value of +1 QSO equals your average points per QSO times your multiplier count — so the multiplier's value pulls ahead the more QSO points you've already logged.

It compares the two marginal values above and answers Yes only when the value of one more multiplier exceeds three times the value of one more average QSO. That 3x threshold is a simple heuristic, not a precise breakeven point — it's meant to flag situations where it's clearly worth abandoning a productive run to search band-to-band for a new multiplier, not to call every marginal case.

Rather than asking you to classify every contact, this mode assumes a fixed split of your total QSOs — 30% same country worth 1 point, 30% same continent worth 2 points, and 40% different continent worth 3 points — and applies that ratio to compute total QSO points. It's a ballpark approximation of DX-weighted scoring, not a substitute for scoring your actual log entry by entry.

No — those three fields only drive the score itself when Contest Type is set to ARRL style, which totals 2 points per CW QSO, 1 point per Phone QSO, and 2 points per Digital QSO, so they're only shown as editable inputs in that mode. Under Standard or CQ WW style, only the Total QSOs field feeds the score formula; the QSOs-and-points-by-mode chart still reflects whatever CW/Phone/Digital values were last entered in ARRL mode, using your selected Points per QSO value for all three modes in that view.