[CQ-Contest] CQWW popularity from EUR Perspective: data

[brian coyne]

      From: brian coyne <g4odv at yahoo.co.uk>
 To: Charles Harpole <hs0zcw at gmail.com> 
 Sent: Thursday, 24 December 2015, 14:35
 Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW popularity from EUR Perspective: data
   
Charley - it didn't take much inspiration to figure precisely what you were going to say before I needed to open your mail.
You are forever knocking CQ & ARRL contests, you live where you live for reasons outside your amateur radio activity - that was your choice, be grateful for your frost and snow free winters, and, don't forget there are Regional awards up for grabs, which in your case is Asia, which happens to be the same region in my case and I aim to get as high as I can in that category. Don't fret over what you cannot change.
73  and a happy Xmas & New Year.
73  Brian 5B4AIZ  /  C4Z.
 

      From: Charles Harpole <hs0zcw at gmail.com>
 To: Joe <nss at mwt.net> 
Cc: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>
 Sent: Thursday, 24 December 2015, 6:07
 Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW popularity from EUR Perspective: data
  
>From a SE ASIA perspective, "imagine the rush" from working FOUR mults
nearby, if anyone bothers to get on, and a couple hi power JAs.
OOOOOOOH  pins and needles.

0000Z is 7AM in my shack, just when dawn wipes out the JA run and leaves me
with a quiet lunch looking at the flat bandcope for five more hours.
OOOOH goosebumps.

These are NA/EU contests, in reality.  73, Charly

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Joe <nss at mwt.net> wrote:

> or to help level things out at least the ten districts, then it's really
> close to Canada.
>
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> On 12/23/2015 3:09 PM, KB8N via CQ-Contest wrote:
>
>> Amen.
>>  I had a two year assignment to Europe in the early 90s, where I held the
>> call DA1AM.  Let me tell you, the adrenalin rush from an  almost
>> inexhaustable number of multipliers on the low bands made the  contest
>> really
>> incredible.  Being that far north, you could sometimes get  some Auroral
>> effect going
>> on and pick up the continental mults on teh higher  bands as well.  In any
>> case, it provided a deep well of scoring  opportunities throughout the 48
>> hour period.
>>  I've always wondered why we didn't  include states as multipliers when
>> we
>> allow Canadian provinces to be counted.
>>  Paul K5AF
>>    In a message dated 12/23/2015 1:37:41 P.M. Central Standard Time,
>> jamesdavidcain at gmail.com writes:
>>
>>  >Remember, that there is an incentive for EU's to work each other on the
>>>
>>  low
>>
>>> bands...to a much greater degree than for USA types to work each  other
>>>
>> (one
>>
>>> zone and done).
>>>
>>> That's a PERFECT  example of the problem with current contest scoring
>>>>>
>>>> rules.
>>
>>>  >>73, Jim K9YC
>>>
>>> Just imagine ... if the ARRL DX Contest  counted U.S. states and Canadian
>>> provinces as multipliers for U.S.  and Canadian participants. Even if the
>>> contacts counted only one  point, or even zero points.
>>>
>>>  K1TN
>>>
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Charly, HS0ZCW
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