[CQ-Contest] Russian DX Contest Log Checking

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:13:13AM -0700, Denis Pochuev - K7GK wrote:
> 
> > Unless you are somehow more likely to attract the flakes on the air 
> > than the stations you are competing against, it doesn't put you at a 
> > disadvantage.
> 
> Not so. An unfortunate (?) side-effect of these rules is that the stations far from the main center of activity for this contest (read Europe) are at a further disadvantage. Whose log will get more "other station busts", WX1XXX's who is loud or KX7XXX's who is lucky to get through at all?

I'm sure Randy is working a lot of very weak signals at his noise level
just like everyone else.  That a station in Massachusetts can work more 
layers deep into the opening is a geographic disparity - but I can't see 
how the differences in log checking would penalize someone working weak
signals in, say, Arizona, versus someone working weak signals in 
Massachusetts.

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Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
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