Sorry, but I think that suggestion is a rathole. I'll bet there are a
hundred similar geographical inequities around the world that could be
identified without much effort. Trying to create a level playing field
for the whole world would be an insanely fruitless effort. That's why
there are regional awards, and I could pretty easily argue that it's a
lot easier to earn an award from zone 27 than it is from zone 5 or 14.
Besides, most participants already have every incentive to work stations
in the zones you mention purely for their multiplier value. The point
value for those zones could be worth ten times as much as they are now
and they still would be more valuable as multipliers since we can all
work several stations from other zones in the time it would take us to
find and work the few stations typically on the air from those zones.
Look at it this way ... under the current rules, how many of us would
rather operate a contest from zone 22, 26, 27, or 28 than the zone we're
in now? I know I would.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 12/6/2010 4:34 AM, Charles Harpole wrote:
> 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
>
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>
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