Sorry, just could not resist not to interfere and share my own experience.
Having operated from Europe and N. America, I was truly amazed how the
propagation looks like in the Zone 24, particularily I mean Shanghai, China,
located at a close proximity to the zones 22, 26, 27 28 discussed here. I
did not operate from there because it took some time to get the Chinese
foreign operator's license. Finally I got the ticket but my stay in China
turn to be over then. Anyway, I had a small receiver with the "SSB facility"
so that I could SWL a bit.
I watched CQ WW SSB and 2009, as well as some other contests and just
non-contest activity.
My observations were amazing.
- While there is not a beep on 15m at my QTH in Canada, both 15 and 10 m are
widely open.
- 40-20-15 m are perfectly open to Europe, the Far East and West Coast NA
for several hours. 40 m is open virtually 24/7. 10 m was fine for the Far
East/Japan, Pacific and West Coast.
- Pacific stations are there with almost equal signals on any bands, 10 to
80 m. A KH2 was a perfect example (59+++ 10 through 80 m) in the CQ WW.
- ZM4A (I think, that was the call) was there like a beacon everywhere 40 m
and up being the strongest on most of bands, though not as strong on 80.
- I could watch a XX9 station running JA's on 10 m for hours and days
non-stop. It even made me curious whether the commonly-accepted idea that
the JA guys disappear by end of contests because they have to go to work is
just a myth.
Sorry, gents, but I am completely sure that even a modest station in the
area can easily provide a blilliant result without any change is the
existing points' system.
73,
Vladimir VE3IAE
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Harpole" <k4vud@hotmail.com>
To: <sm6lrr@gmail.com>; "Florida ContestGroup" <fcg@kkn.net>; "Contest
Internet" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] a little more fairness?
>
> Ok, and good arguement Mats.... BUT, if an overall win is not important,
> then why is that what is the big news in the magazines and score reports?
> IF contests are all about personal best scores, about local wins, and
> about who in what country scored highest, then why is there total stress
> on THE TOP TEN OR TOP TWENTY?
>
> When the magazines and sites start to forground and highlight personal
> best scores, local wins, and who in what geographical area scored high,
> THEN I will agree with your statements. American contests are for
> Americans, of course, but the sponsors of contests can infuse more
> satisfaction for ALL participants by getting off the idea of TOP SCORERS
> overall.
>
> de HS0ZCW
>
> Charles Harpole k4vud@hotmail.com
>
>
>
>
>
> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:56:56 +0300
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] a little more fairness?
> From: sm6lrr@gmail.com
> To: vk4ti@yahoo.com
> CC: cq-contest@contesting.com; k4vud@hotmail.com
>
>
> If we start to change points for different zones, this will create a huge
> mess. See CQWW as a contest where you first of all challenge your own
> previous results by building better antennas, increasing your own
> operating skills, learning to adapt to different conditions on different
> bands, search more efficiently for multipliers etc etc. When you think you
> have improved your own skills enough, start comparing with your neighbours
> in the same city, country, zone, continent... If you really want to win
> the CQWW contest, you need to also analyze which geographical location is
> the ideal. The globe is as it is... I know for sure, regardless of
> antennas and skills, to win SOAB from Sweden or from Moscow will be
> impossible. BUT, there are always national records in different categories
> to aim for.
>
> Enjoy contesting, develop your station and your skills - and most of all,
> realize that we will never be able to achieve WRTC 2010 equal conditions
> for all contesters in CQWW ;) Have fun! Contesting is exciting, but not
> the most deadly serious in life...
>
> 73 de R3/SM6LRR, Mats
>
>
>
> 2010/12/7 <vk4ti@yahoo.com>
>
> 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
>
> k4vud@hotmail.com
>
>
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