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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