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Re: [CQ-Contest] a little more fairness?

To: Contest Internet <cq-contest@contesting.com>, Charles Harpole <k4vud@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] a little more fairness?
From: vk4ti@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 12:36:29 -0800 (PST)
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Charles for years the contesting community down under has said we cant compete 
with the Hawaiians for Oceania - 
Recently from the antipodes the ZL8X team did just that - competed and broke 
the Oceania MM record - why ? They had very good ops, a good location and even 
better antenna. 
There are only a handful of good stations in Oceania - I am one of the guys 
that put together the VK4KW team and we have done heaps of work to get results 
and are on constant improvement - there has been two years steady improvement 
and at least another two years before we hit our straps..
The scores from 9M6AAC over the years say to me that your neck of the woods is 
fine - you just need to make a station that works - just like everyone else 
does..
Start with beverages on 160 70 and 40 and work from there - I am sure you will 
be happy with the results 


--- On Mon, 6/12/10, Charles Harpole <k4vud@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Charles Harpole <k4vud@hotmail.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] a little more fairness?
To: "Contest Internet" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Received: Monday, 6 December, 2010, 10:34 PM


A modest proposal....  Could the contesting community consider cutting some 
slack to a neglected part of the contesting world, specifically CQ Zones 22, 
26, 27 and 28, South Asia area.  I suggest doubling the point count for working 
stations in this area from outside the zones.
 
The reason is that (1) most beams are from NA to EU or the reverse or are on JA 
(these headings are a long way from S. Asia usually), (2) many very high power 
stations clustered in EU tend to drown out S. Asia to all in EU, (3) the start 
time of 0000Z gives very poor first hours to S. Asia stations due to prop at 
those hours, and (5) there are just not as many one-hop stations to work within 
these and near-by zones and (5) not many stations in S. Asia do contests partly 
due to what is listed here.
 
The playing field is just not flat, not nearly, and looks more like a mountain 
between S. Asia and the large collections of contesters in EU and NA.  So, I 
ask this be considered because it will also liven up contests and add more 
challenges.  I will certainly encourage S. Asia stations to participate more 
and longer.
 
73, Thanks, HS0ZCW

Charles Harpole 
 
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