[CQ-Contest] Spoofed Self spots

[Mark - N5OT]

I am pretty sure the results of the contest would not support the 
statement that most of the people who do not live in the Atlantic basin 
are turned off by CQWW.

At the least, it it would be dependent on how it is being measured.  I'd 
like to be a fly on the wall of that peer-review.

73 - Mark N5OT


On 11/5/2021 8:39 AM, ktfrog007 at aol.com wrote:
> Data?  I believe he's referring to the results of the contest, generally.
>
>
> 73,
>
> Ken, AB1J
>
>
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> From: Mark - N5OT <r-emails at n5ot.com>
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> > ... the scoring rules heavily weighted to those around the Atlantic
> basin, make CQWW a complete turnoff for most of us living elsewhere.
>
> Easy, big boy.  I don't live around the Atlantic basin, yet you don't
> speak for me.  That broad brush is not helpful.  Do you have data?
>
> 73 - Mark N5OT
>
>
> On 11/4/2021 1:55 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> > On 11/4/2021 8:19 AM, Hans Brakob wrote:
> >> Mike, the days when you actually COPY something are long past for CQWW.
> >
> > CQWW is the dumbest large contest going -- all you have to copy is the
> > call for most QSOs, and if you're assisted, you don't even have to
> > copy that! That, combined with the scoring rules heavily weighted to
> > those around the Atlantic basin, make CQWW a complete turnoff for most
> > of us living elsewhere.
> >
> > 73, Jim K9YC
> > Santa Cruz, CA
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