[CQ-Contest] CQWW madness

[john at kk9a.com]

There are different areas were a station can be competitive in Sweepstakes
but certainly not all areas. Do you think it was fair when you lived in
Chicago? The west coast has more daylight hours, which are a high band
advantage and the contest ends at a more reasonable time there for those
that work on Monday. You can see the pattern if you look at the list of HP
phone winners over the last 20 years.  1995 N5RZ, 1996 N7TR, 1997 WP2Z,
1998-2007 WP3R, 2008 W7WA, 2009 KH7XS, 2010 VY2ZM, 2011 N9RV/7, 2012-2013
VY2ZM, 2014-2015 W7WA.

There really is no fair contest so just have fun and operate!

John KK9A

To:	cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject:	Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW madness
From:	Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to:	k9yc at arrl.net
Date:	Sat, 23 Jul 2016 20:13:35 -0700
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On Sat,7/23/2016 5:50 PM, Ed Sawyer wrote:
Why are we beating up the CQWW contest? SS and NAQP are not fair either.

Actually, SS and NAQP are relatively competitive between different parts of
NA. In SS, PVRC, SMC, and NCCC have each turned in wins in Large Club
competitons, and another half dozen or so smaller clubs have done will the
Medium and Small club competions. Indeed, it's been largely a matter of
motivation of members as to which club wins any given year.

Likewise, top NAQP and NA Sprint scores are spread around, and there's quite
healthy competition between teams. NCCC teams often place well in both
contests, even beating "ad hoc" teams of top operators all over NA.

IMO, the most unfair element of SS is the number of geographically small
sections with relatively little ham activity, most of them located where
they're easy to work on 80/75 from W1/2/3. I'm thinking of the four new VE3
sections, RI, and MAR sections. The only section comparable out west is SF;
things are better there since K6SRZ moved from Berkeley (EB) to wine country
(part of the SF section) when he retired several years ago.