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

[Steve London]

Even in more recent times, CQWW hasn't been hopeless if you live west of the 
Delaware River:

CQWW SSB 2013
N2IC/5	W5	SO HIGH ALL	7,529,827 	4,338 	169 	472 	45.7

On 12/02/2020 02:17 PM, Douglas Zwiebel wrote:
> 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
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