[CQ-Contest] Worst contesting location?

John Geiger ne0p at lcisp.com
Tue Jan 17 22:36:20 EST 2006


I know that the best contest location has been discussed many times before, and I seem to remember that EA8 came out on top.  But here is a twist on this-what is the worst contesting location, based on propagation, geography, rarity, etc.

One place I would propose would be the South Shetland Islands-but I could be very wrong.  It seems that the SSI are far enough south to be in the aurora zone, they aren't close to any large ham population centers except for LU and PY, and they are in a pretty common CQ zone.  >From a propagation and location standpoint Heard Is. and the FT5 islands would probably be even worse, but they are so rare that it would overcome those factors, and they are in a rarer CQ zone for the CQWW also.

Anyone else have ideas on this?

73s John NE0P


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