When did Ohio become the West coast? K3LR has done a great job with
great ops, engineering and lots of hardware. Congrats to them. K3LR
does not represent any station west of the Mississippi.
1986 was 30 years ago. W7RM was certainly West Coast and that was at a
time when the JA's could be run for hours just like EU from the East
Coast. Unfortunately they count for one mult so it makes that win even
more impressive.
So one win in 1986 makes the East Coast domination of the Event OK?
Where is the ARRL and CAC on this issue? Would they even consider
making JA and BY states multipliers? Do they even look at the disparity
in winning, do they care? Do they think it is an issue? Would more
people compete harder if they felt that had a chance to win?
Is the new contest manager on this list?
It would be refreshing to see that the ARRL in some active discussions
about contesting every now and again here on the list or soliciting
comments from people outside the "circle" from time to time.
W0MU
On 2/25/2016 4:49 AM, kr2q@optimum.net wrote:
In this long chain of posts on this topic, a recent post stated:
[snip]
Of course the West coast isn't going to come close to the East coast in a DX
contest.
[end snip]
On average, historically, that is true. But it is NOT an absolute truth.
Check out a PDF of my 2008 Dayton Contest Forum presentation, ala K3LR
http://www.kkn.net/dayton2008/when_giants_walked_the_bands.pdf
See slide 18.
Please note that in 1971 and 1976, W7RM won M/M (CQWW SSB) and that in 1986,
N5AU also won M/M (CQWW SSB).
And let's not forget K3LR (effectively in Ohio) who is putting together a huge
string of M/M wins..
de Doug KR2Q
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