This is all so much ado about nothing!
Look at last year's results. In SAH, VY2TT is nearly 1,000 QSOs and 57
countries behind K4XS and 200 QSOs and 54 countries behind K3WW.
VY2ZM is third overall in S, and first in NA. But the chief protagonist here
should worry more about why he's almost 500 Qs behind K1TO before figuring out
how to beat Jeff... So, is the problem the unfairness of Canada's increased
freedom, or a vendetta against Jeff?
Meanwhile, another protagonist in this conversation was almost 4,000 Qs out of
contention...
In all categories in W/VE, only one Canadian shows up in Top 10, two in Top 20
and after VY2TT's 12th place, the next station with an insurmountable, unfair
advantage is XL3A, in 29th place.
Oooh, be still my beating heart!
73, kelly
ve4xt
----- Original Message -----
From: "W0MU Mike Fatchett" <w0mu@w0mu.com>
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:52:09 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Open Letter to VE Contesters
This is kinda like having a separate track to race on in the Daytona
500. The problem with it is that the ARRL has combined VE and USA into
the same category when their regulatory rules are different.
I would imagine that VE's would have cried out long ago if in fact the
CW power limit was say 200 watts while the USA was 1500 or if the VE sub
bands for cw started at .075.
Oddly the USA seems to get the short end of the stick in the frequency
wars because we have more hams.
It is an advantage and most have admitted to it. When at V47M we
listened on our Xmit frequency all the time on 40m and worked tons of
VE's who have very little competition.
It is unfair to the person being harmed not to the one getting the
advantage and I have yet to hear one VE say that it is not an advantage
so should that be the reason enough that something should be done?
If VE competed solely against VE then it would not be an issue but that
is not the case.
W0MU
On 2/23/2016 9:04 PM, Ken Widelitz wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
>
>
> No, I will not agree to only operate in the U. S. phone band. The ability to
> operate outside the U. S. phone band is one reason I chose PEI for my
> station. It is not an unfair advantage. It is an advantage. The old adage is
> location, location, location. If you don't like your location, you can do
> something about it.
>
>
>
> How about putting a plug in your left ear because you have an unsurmountable
> advantage since over me since I lost 60% of my hearing in my left ear about
> 4 years ago with a sharp decline starting at 800 hz. There is nothing I can
> do about that. You don't need to put the plug in for CW.
>
>
>
> And its mano a mano, not mono - mono.
>
>
>
> 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
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