[CQ-Contest] Re-thinking Asia and contests

[John Geiger]

"So, is it much more difficult to make contacts and points if all of Asia
counts little and one is IN Asia. It is a long pull to any population
centers outside of Asia."

Would this make one of the better operating locations in Asia to be Turkey,
since it would be close to all of EU, and not much further to NA than SE
Europe is?

Haven't seen any large contest station emerge in TA, though, unless my
memory is failing.

73 John AF5CC


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Charles Harpole <hs0zcw at gmail.com> wrote:

> First off, ASIA is a very large place.  In contest parlance it exists from
> Japan to Turkey on the East-West dimension and from Singapore to way up in
> Siberia on the North-South dimension.  For example, the path from Singapore
> to Kuwait is 4,150 miles (6,679 KM);  from Tokyo to Kuwait City 5,165
> (8,312 KM);  and from Colombo to Dolgans (Siberia) is about 6,000
> miles, give or take a few miles.
> In propagation hops, that is 2-3 from Colombo to Tokyo and 3 hops from
> Singapore to Kuwait city, depending on the month and other factors.  These
> paths on 160 and 80 are known to be killers.
>
> Comparing, the distances and hops in Europe are much smaller and the low
> bands much easier to generate many contacts.  NA and JA would be similar.
>
> So, is it much more difficult to make contacts and points if all of Asia
> counts little and one is IN Asia.  It is a long pull to any population
> centers outside of Asia.  Then, when Asia is considered as a unit, it is
> clear that is hardly equal to, say, EU.
>
> How about splitting Asia into 4 ?
>
> --
> Charly, HS0ZCW
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