[CQ-Contest] Why I Won't Be in CQWW CW This Year

[Barry]

Here's an armchair analysis of CQWW CW participation by 
location:
I looked at scores from reported on 3830 last year. I wanted to find 
a high score in zone 8 (for easy analysis of 2 point (mostly US) vs. 
3 point locations) for analysis, and picked 8P9Z. If you do the math 
to figure out the average worth of each QSO (score divided by 
mults), it was about 2.6 points.
Assuming most of the 2 pointers came from the US, rather than 
other Caribb (mostly US Dxpeditions anyway) and VE stations, 
that means about 40% of 8P9Z's QSOs were with the US. Less 
than half, but I wouldn't say "most" participants come from outside 
the US.
73,
Barry W2UP

On 15 Oct 01, Jeffrey Clarke wrote:

> 
> 
> 
>  If you are a CW contester you are basically screwed when it comes
> to the contests that CQ Magazine sponsors. The two major CW contests
> they sponsor fall on holiday weekends in the US - WPX CW is Memorial
> Day weekend and CQWW DX CW on Thanksgiving weekend. So if you have to
> choose between family stuff and doing the contest some of us have to
> make a choice between the two. The answer I have always got when I
> brought this up to someone associated with CQ is they will not change
> the dates because most of the participation is outside of the USA. I
> don't see why they couldn't rotate the CW/SSB weekends from year to
> year. This would be a good compromise....
> 
>                     Jeff KU8E
> 
> ps : I will also be missing CQWW CW too because I will be in Danbury,CT
> on Thanksgiving weekend. We will be driving and I will have the radio
> in the car to hand out some points though....  Might be open to
> visiting
> a multi-op for a few hours to see what it is like from the east coast..
> Anyone ???
> 
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