[CQ-Contest] It Is What It Is

[Rex Maner]

SOME  Of our states equal all of the EU countries then some of Asia also
Alaska for  1 and   Texas is equal to almost all of EU so 1 pointers for 
working  El Paso to Huston  or Dallas would be approiate under this senario.

Quack


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Geiger" <johngeig at yahoo.com>
To: <steve.root at culligan4water.com>; <k-zero-hb at earthlink.net>; 
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Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] It Is What It Is


> 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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