[CQ-Contest] What Happened on 10 Meters?

[K1TTT]

Just change mode, the cqww rtty contest is already that way.


David Robbins K1TTT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Kopacz [mailto:david.kopacz at aspwebhosting.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 22:04
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What Happened on 10 Meters?
> 
> The problem is that Europe, smaller than the US, consists of countries
> and the United States consists of states resulting in one pointers for
> Europeans to work each other and zero pointers for US stations to work
> one another. There is no incentive for US stations to work each other.
> 
> Imagine for a moment, how the contest would be IF each state counted as
> a multiplier and one point for everyone.
> 
> The entire contest results would shift. That's right, US stations could
> compete with European stations and the Caribbean could now compete with
> the North African Islands and so on and so on.
> 
> A few simple changes in the scoring change everything. Perhaps it's time
> for change!
> 
> David ~ KY1V
> 
> 
> 
> An
> Looking at the CQWW SSB 10 meter totals on 3830, I see huge  differences
> 
> between numbers posted in Europe and those from the USA.  For  example
> DF0HQ
> had 676/26/109, vs. 209/14/44 at K3LR.
> 
> The 15 meter multiplier numbers were pretty close, with the EU guys
> having
> more qsos which can be attributed to lots of one pointers within EU,
> while
> the  USA guys would not bother with working each other for zero points.
> 
> Was there some sort of very short opening that peaked in the hours the
> EU
> could have worked people, but petered out before the Western Hemisphere
> could  take advantage?  Multiple hop Es in useful directions? Something
> else I'm
>  missing?
> 
> Inquiring minds want to know.
> 
> 
> 73  -  Jim  K8MR
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