Hank:
Maybe your comments (below) were tongue-in-cheek, but you may be on to
something.
There is a greater concentration of monetary wealth in the D.C.-to-Boston
corridor than anywhere else in the U.S. That's good, because it takes a lot
of money to buy the land and build the station to be competitive in DX
contests. But it also takes a drive to excel, something that tends toward
cold, northern climes.
Of course there are world-class contest operators in other parts of the U.S.
But there's a concentration of them in The Corridor. Part of that is due to
population density, but that works two ways. The Corridor is a horribly
expensive part of the country in which to live. One really, really, has to
want to excel not only to live there but to put up a station. (See --
Darwin.)
Want to do better? Move. A guy from New Hampshire built a station in Maine.
A guy from New York built a station on Price Edward Island. Good for them.
Truth be known, it is so hard to operate DX contests from close to the
Atlantic Ocean ... put up a wire in a tree and those pesky Europeans just
call and call, layer after layer of them (thank you EU!). It's impossible to
hear any other DX, like in Africa or the Pacific.
I trust this clears everything up.
Jim Cain
At The New K1TN Superstation
7 miles east of Mountain, Wisconsin
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"From these data, one can only conclude that the people on the east coast
are more competent contest operators than us dolts who live in other parts
of the U.S.A.
"It's kinda hard to conclude anything else, particularly since the
reflector did weird things with the formatting of these data.
"73 de n8xx"
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