When SS was created, there had been little intercontinental communications, if any. The purpose of SS was to find the very best American or Canadian traffic handlers during the late spark days. ( Yes
But in the WAE everybody can work at least ONE side, e.g. NA's can wkg EU, (same as in the AA). Thats fine, but in the SS DX can work NOTHING ! 73, Tom / DL8AAM -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.cont
Tom.... SS is simply a "domestic" contest for us in NA.....sorry you cannot participate, how about you make up for it by working all of us on six bands at the end of the month in the WW CW! k4oj -- C
The only way to change rules is working against them. I'm PY2NY and 7 QSOs were made on North American CW SS. I'll appear like checklog, I'm sure, but maybe will find more W/VE in my SS log next time
Re working DX in SS: I have been doing SS for quite a few years and, to the best of my knowlege, and according to the rules as published in QST, there is nothing against working DX in Sweepstakes. Yo
Steve, I doubt it. The SS rules say the station must give you their ARRL/RAC section. How can a DX station do that? True, and I would work them if they called. However, they won't be in my log if the