[CQ-Contest] NCJ Article RE: Sweepstakes Change Suggestions

George Fremin III geoiii at kkn.net
Fri Mar 16 10:50:14 EDT 2018


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 01:04:38PM +0000, RT Clay wrote:

> daylight hours will further increase the advantage of western or
> Carribean (or VY2) stations because of the skip zones on the high
> bands. Most eastern "tribander" stations actually make most of their
> Sweepstakes contacts with low 40m or 80m dipoles. I think such a
> change would make it even less popular to eastern stations.

You are correct - it would be a terrible change to SS.

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