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Subject: Re: [WriteLog] P49X Prefill file & Message Info for ARRLRTTYRoundup today
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 23:02:38 -0800
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On Wed,1/7/2015 1:14 PM, Radio K0HB wrote:
At its' core, Radiosport contesting is intended to measure and reward your 
individual skills as a radioman.

Wrong! It measures you station, your QTH (try being in the hunt for any CQ or ARRL DX contest from Zone 3 or from a city lot or a suburb with CC&Rs), and yes, your skills. Your station can be anything from a wire in the attic to multiple towers with stacks on those towers. Scoring rules for virtually all DX contests from NA sponsors favor those very close to the Atlantic basin by a factor of at least 10:1. Why are contests won from QTHs like EA8, PJ4, and P4? It's all due to scoring rules -- they count as different continents, and are located to easily work EU and NA. And that's only geography! Put the best operator in the world on a city lot, or at a super-station around San Francisco, and he's not going to be in the hunt.

Contesting scoring rules are badly broken, and discourage those outside the favored areas from participating. VKs and ZLs are as easy for me to work as EU is for those around the Atlantic, but I work a lot fewer of them than I work EU stations, who are more difficult to work because they're over the North Pole from my QTH near San Francisco. Like me, they are simply not in the hunt.

73, Jim K9YC


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