[CQ-Contest] CQWW is a Great Contest - YES IT IS!

[Douglas Zwiebel]

Well, JB says he is bored on the west coast.
That it is only GREAT if you happen to be close to the Atlantic basin.

All you have to do is look at the annual stats for the number of entrants
to know that CQWW is a GREAT contest and exactly because it is a worldwide
contest.

See https://www.cqww.com/stats.htm

Timed for "best conditions" of the year.
Over 8,000 logs received each on cw and ssb.
DXCC assured every contest, even for QRPers
Over 3,000,000 QSOs per contest weekend
WAZ in a weekend often possible

>From a world perspective, it IS a great contest.

Maybe from your geocentric perspective it isn't.
That's OK. There is room for everybody.

And if you are motivated, take a look at the USA winners from a few decades
ago.
JA used to be a huge population center for contesting.
East coast USA guys used to worry.
The West Coast has endless JAs to work and they only need to work 1 QSO per
EUR country.
The JA's are so well behaved, you can have huge runs.  The West coast is
like heaven.

Times have changed.  No reason for CQWW to change.  Times will change again.

de Doug KR2Q

1983 AI6V SO HP ALL 3,576,528  2,947  139  296
1982 W1ZM SO HP ALL 3,182,460  1,790  150  470
1981 K1AR SO HP ALL 3,554,880  2,194  140  420
1980 K7RI SO HP ALL 2,972,846  2,674  127  256
1979 N7DD SO HP ALL 3,113,788  2,206  147  346
1978 W4DR SO HP ALL 2,727,108  1,842  127  386
1977 W3WJD SO HP ALL 2,377,560  1,713  128  357
1976 W1ZM SO HP ALL 1,885,050  1,470  106  344
1975 W7RM SO HP ALL 2,208,980  2,095  115  250
1974 W6RR SO HP ALL 1,346,880  1,304  108  260
1973 K6AHV SO HP ALL 1,635,039  1,537  125  244
1972 W6RR SO HP ALL 2,350,964  1,820  134  315
1971 W2PV SO HP ALL 1,355,360  116  116  314
1970 W6RR SO HP ALL 1,837,620  1,561  130  285
1969 K1KTH SO HP ALL 1,523,820  1,122  138  328
1968 W2PV SO HP ALL 1,314,403  1,107  114  305
1967 W4AXE SO HP ALL 1,301,776  1,094  127  286