LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION !!!!
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:57:05 -0400 <n8ie@woh.rr.com> writes:
> 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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