[CQ-Contest] It Is What It Is

[John Geiger]

And remember, in terms of size and distance, what we
in the US call states Europe calls countries (and 1
point QSOs).

73s John W5TD

--- steve.root at culligan4water.com wrote:

> The idea of an uneven playing field has nothing to
> do with operator skills or station size. If you're a
> better operator, have mastered techiques like SO2R,
> have superior station building skills and resources,
> or have innovative new ideas then you're SUPPOSED to
> win. And I've never seen anything written on this
> Reflector that would question that principle. Any
> suggestion to level the field has nothing to do with
> a Pete Rosell type "parity" or anythiing remotely
> close to "Harrison Bergeron". 
> 
> The uneven field refers to something that you cannot
> engineer your way around or compenstate for with
> skills and hardware. I highly doubt people travel to
> HC8 because they like to look at lizards and
> turtles, or spend lots of money building stations on
> D4 because they like high humidity. Geography is an
> immutable fact of life. You can't underestimate it's
> effect and you can't do anything about it either. To
> be blunt, you will NEVER win a DX contest from North
> Dakota. You probably won't win SS either.
> 
> While we can accept the realities of operating where
> we live, it's difficult to accept a set of rules
> that exxagerate the inequities. This thread started
> with the suggestion that CQ consider a relativley
> small change to their scoring rules that would
> address one of these inequities (living in a big
> high population country). That's about it, right
> Rick?
> 
> 73 Steve K0SR
> 
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