[CQ-Contest] CQ WW Participation?

[Yan (XV4Y)]

Hi,

That's still the case even in solar peak if you leave in an area with a low radioamateur population like here in SE Asia.
When the band does not open to EU or NA, you can get bored very quickly working the fellows around you.
Nobody (even JA) turns its antenna in your direction and you can keep calling CQ for few QSOs.
Only a par of stations make a full 24/48h effort, diminishing even more the chance of working local stations (when there is long-haul propagation, everybody is busy, when not, everybody has gone...).

Not complaining here (I like the place I choose to live, even with the drawbacks), just telling the other side of the story.

73,
Yan.
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Yannick DEVOS - XV4Y
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http://xv4y.radioclub.asia/

Le 30 sept. 2014 à 23:00, cq-contest-request at contesting.com a écrit :

> With fewer stations on a lot of contesters got bored.  I remember talking to 
> W1PDF (RI) and WA2 (can't remember his call) who became W2PV.  They both 
> said why make the effort with activity so low.  Once you had worked the 
> first group of stations pickings were very slim on SSB.