The low activity issue is irrelevant for the NAQP and NA Sprints. There
is insufficient activity in nearly every NA country outside of the US
and Canada, which does not disqualify those countries from being
multipliers.
Being somewhat familiar with the DC area by virtue of having a daughter
who lived in the DC area (though not in the District itself) for
several years, it would not be difficult to do a DXpedition style
operation (or more accurately, a state QSO Party rover style operation)
for a 4 or 12 hour contest from places like Rock Creek Park, or the
park (whose name I forget) which is right across the river from Reagan
Airport.
73 - Jim K8MR
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: cq-contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Sat, Jan 24, 2015 3:13 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Announcing the North America SSB
Sprint-boycott from "MAR"
On Sat,1/24/2015 7:15 AM, Paul Stoetzer wrote:
There's no good
reason to do so. DC stands on it's own as a completely separate
political
entity from Maryland.
I beg to differ. There's a VERY good reason, and, IMO, is the same
reason why the Canadian sections are grouped together for some contests
-- insufficient activity. This is a reality of our modern world -- it's
become increasingly difficult to build and operate a halfway decent HF
station in our major cities. The reasons range from wildly excessive
noise levels to limitations of real estate, sky hooks, legal/zoning
restrictions, and CC&Rs. When I lived in Chicago, I was one of four
active HF stations, one of whom operated QRP from the University of
Chicago. I know of NO active contesters in the city of San Francisco,
and I would know if they were there because they would be in our club.
I
don't know ham activity in other large cities, but I suspect it's
pretty
similar.
73, Jim K9YC
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