[CQ-Contest] Contest restructing

[Andrew Isar]

"Since 1970"... Winning from zone 3 was possible even through the 1980s
because of the high number of Asian - Japanese - stations.  Now long since
gone!  And the increasing number of BYs do not make up for the significant
reduction in JA.

W7VJ


At the risk of being contrarian for its own sake, I wonder what's different
about CQWW SSB, because there have been (relatively speaking) lots of
winners from outside of the east coast in that contest. Since 1970...

AI6V
K6AHV
K7RI
N2IC/5
N7DD
W6RR (3x)
W7RM
WM5G

Have won CQWW SSB.

Granted, K1AR has won something like 14 times in the same time period, but I
wonder what's up with SSB that makes it possible for non-W1/W2/W3/W4
stations to win when it's so rare in CW? All of the stations above were
competing with big east coast stations.

73,
Chris WF3C