[CQ-Contest] CQWW

John Geiger af5cc2 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 26 22:13:12 EDT 2017


Some parts of Europe (like SV for example) are also very close to 2 other
continents, so the ease of working high point QSOs is greater as well,
especially on the low bands.

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Ed Muns <ed at w0yk.com> wrote:

> Ed N1UR wrote:
> Now that it has "grown up" very nicely to 3000 logs submitted (which is
> actually where the CQ WW SSB or CW results were back in the 90s), it would
> seem that the same country points are no longer necessary.
>
> [Ed W0YK]
> Same rationale.  Europe has far more QSO points (as well as mults)
> available
> in a comparable geographic area to VE/US.  EU countries are similar in size
> to US states and VE areas.  "Growing up" has nothing to do with it.
>
> All contests don't have to have the same rules.  There is a wide diversity
> of contests for each of us to choose the ones we enjoy.
>
> Ed W0YK
>
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