[CQ-Contest] zero pointers - was: Rick's Cafe...NQ4I's "Play it again"

[ku8e at bellsouth.net]

    If CQWW wants to be a true "worldwide " contest then everyone should be able the work everyone.
  Everyone should get the same number of points per QSO. Let the zones and country multiplier 
   be the determining scoring factor. 

    In the USA you are at a big disadvantange compared to the rest of the world. Non -USA stations 
  can  operate on frequencies on SSB and avoid us if they want. If condx go bad it doesn't hurt your 
  score -   you can go into SS mode and just work the local countries around you. True you are getting 
  only 1  point per QSO from EU but you are probably working at least 3 stations per min. Almost as 
  good as running  W's. I know many Dxpeditions have a strategy of avoiding the US at the beginning 
  of the contest by operating on frequencies we can't operate (on SSB) and later switch their focus to 
  the USA and have big pileups of stations the work.

  Thank Goodness for CW where some of that disadvantage disappears..


  Jeff KU8E