I am on the East Coast and find that in many contests, among the most difficult
to work are states nearby due to propagation.
Stan, K4SBZ
"Real radio bounces off the sky."
> On Jan 7, 2020, at 10:53 AM, "rjairam@gmail.com" <rjairam@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> While a conspiracy against the west coast might seem cute, the results
> don’t bear that out.
>
> I can assure you that when discussing contest rules at the ARRL, we do not
> engineer the rules to disadvantage the West coast.
>
> Even out East it’s not a slam dunk in DX contests either as there is now a
> lot of remote competition clustered in Maine.
>
> It is what it is.
>
> 73
> Ria
> N2RJ
>
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 10:16 AM Bill kollenbaum via CQ-Contest <
> cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote:
>
>> If you think it's a challenge from the Mid-Atlantic region, consider
>> what it's like from W6.
>>
>> Any changes to contest rules that increase the advantage of east coast
>> contesters seems to be OK with HQ!
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC
>>
>> I can go one better. How'd you like to have to work it from KH6? Close
>> to 6000 miles away.. JA, HL and UA9 are closer. So is VK/ZL. This might
>> take away some of the West Coast advantage.
>> KH7XS
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