[CQ-Contest] SS, SS and again SS....

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

Jeff,

Spot on man!  Spot on!

On 11/9/2017 3:50 PM, Jeff Clarke wrote:
>
> I wonder if I have to move to the US to find this reflector 
> interesting....
>
> Maybe the rest of the world (apart from the US) need to create our own
> contest reflector?
>
> 73 de RM2D, Mats
>
>
>
> Geez Mats,
>
> Isn't a US domestic contest like Sweepstakes much like CQWW from 
> Europe ?  You all pretty much work each other and working the US is an 
> afterthought! There is proof of this if you download public logs from 
> CQ for the guys with big scores in EU and North Africa. Usually 70% of 
> their QSO's are with other EU stations inside an area smaller than the 
> continental US. You consider that a DX contest? Every year I waste 
> time calling EU stations on 160/80 meters when I operate from the 
> Caribbean. Maybe CQ should NOT allow EU to work each other for any 
> points and maybe you would have a different opinion about it? The one 
> thing you do have going for you is you have some youth interested in 
> CW. Here in the US it's mostly old guys ! :}
>
> Jeff
>
>
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