I moved to KH6 in 2006 knowing that the boys in the big basin south of the
US would have an advantage over me in the DX contests and in the domestic
contests. Granted it ain't like moving to HS, but the concept remains the
same. If I finished behind a good station like a ZF in the ARRL, no big
deal
No way was I going to do well in the NAQP since I was out of sync with the
band flow of the contest. However, I found contests I could do well in
and did those. The WAE was near impossible to do well in but I enjoyed the
huge runs for the few hours at the bottom of the cycle that the bands were
open to EU.
Dave, NH2T does very well in DX contests with a very modest set up..a 40-
ft tower.
The solution, if you want to be competitive is to QSY, not to the USA, but
to one of the neighboring "rare"countries in SEA. :-)
By the way, the AA and Oceania contests are tough from the east coast, but
I'll get on sometimes just to give out a Q. IOTA isn't a whole lot of fun
if you don't live on an island, but I'll hand a Q or 2 in that one too.
You don't have to be competitive to participate.
K4XS/KH7XS
In a message dated 11/28/2013 2:11:17 A.M. Coordinated Universal Tim,
hs0zcw@gmail.com writes:
It is very telling that, until an American ham like me and lately Bob
(N6BK+HS), move to South East Asia that we realize just how much ARRL and
many CQ contests are skewed to serve the good ole USA/NA hams. Being in
SEA has shown me that many of these skewed contests are really more like
WAE or other localized contests, these favor USA/NA.
In earlier msg here, I pointed this out in detail, but interestingly not
one of five responders got the skewing but instead invited me to move back
to USA. I tried to explain why hams outside USA are not wildly
enthusiastic about getting on to help USA hams have a higher score. But,
these are not "our" contests out here in the rest of the world. When the
295,000 licensed hams in Thailand upgrade to HF privileges, we will be the
"second JAs" and the world may tilt a little more fairly. Big smile and
no kidding.
73, Charly HS0ZCW
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Bob Kupps <n6bk@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>>Bob: I think the history of this is that it was done to encourage
> expeditions for the contests to North American island countries in the
> Caribbean. It did that and their being there made those
> multipliers available to everyone. It would be hard to change the rule
> now that so many people have so heavily invested in stations in the
> North American
> Caribbean. Welcome back to contesting. Maybe we worked this weekend
> from PJ4A (a Caribbean multiplier in South America). If not, hope to
> work you again soon while we have good conditions to your part of the
> world. Keep up the good work. 73, John, K4BAI.
> Well John I just can't believe that all those Caribbean stations would
> take down their towers and go home should they be required to play by
the
> same rules as everyone else. If I were competing in NA I certainly
wouldn't
> care to look at my score in the rankings knowing it was handicapped. 73
bob
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