The heck with it all, if you hear it, that's good enough.
Free 5 Band DXCC for everyone!
Or better yet, the much coveted D-Star DXCC Award. Ohhhhhhhhhhh
---- mstangelo@comcast.net wrote:
> Jim,
>
> You can't have your cake and eat it. The West coast has nicer weather than
> the East coast but the left coast ocean is larger...
>
> Maybe there should be an award based on Grid Squares.
>
> Mike N2MS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
> To: 'TopBand' <topband@contesting.com>
> Sent: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:17:35 -0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Topband: DXCC Fairness
>
> Talk about DXCC fairness -- it's FAR easier to work DXCC with a modest
> station anywhere around the Atlantic, or within 1000 km of it, than it
> is from the Pacific. I've got a very nice antenna farm and have taken
> the time to become a competitive contester, but I am almost never able
> to work DXCC in a weekend contest, all bands combined. But guys on the
> east coast consider it trivially easy. The difference is especially
> striking on Topband -- there are often openings from EU to eastern NA,
> whereas we might HEAR a dozen signals a YEAR out here in California. It
> took me four years to work 100 countries on 160, and two years later I'm
> at 125. I haven't heard EU for two years.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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