[CQ-Contest] Domestic stations in CQWW

[John Geiger]

With the removal of the CW requirement, there was
probably a lot of newly upgraded hams who just got on
the for the contest and really didn't understand the
DX nature of it and just wanted to make contacts.

73s John AA5JG

--- Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> --- Richard DiDonna NN3W <nn3w at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > Did anyone else besides him and I notice a marked
> increase in the number of
> > W/K stations answering domestic CQs this past
> weekend?  My stateside QSO
> > count went from 152 in 2006 to 231 in 2007.  And
> that 231 number is the
> > result of the fact that around 1900z I changed my
> CQ loop message to "CQ
> > countest outside of the United States?"
> 
> Just a theory...
> 
> When did ARRL add the WAS award to LoTW?  Was it
> this year?
> 
> Contesters can be good electronic QSLers.  Maybe
> people are taking advantage of
> this as a short cut to ragchews and collecting cards
> for their WAS award.
> 
> 73 - Jim AD1C
> 
> 
> --
> Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>,
> http://www.ad1c.us
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