[CQ-Contest] When a W1 doesn't win a DX contest

[Barry W2UP]

You are missing the point, Bill.  Eliteness has nothing to do with it.
It's all about sunrise/sunset times and how long the band is open to a
particular area.

The EU opening in MO is about 90 minutes shorter on the high bands, due to
MO's later sunrise.  And then there's the 4th and 5th tier Europeans that
can't be heard from the west.  I suppose there could have been thousands of
JAs on the air that usually don't operate contests.  But then the west
coast would have had the advantage, for the same reason - a longer opening.

But you knew all this...

Barry W2UP

On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 12:30 PM ko7ss--- via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> Ed, N1UR wrote:
>
> "Guys, I have nothing to add on the valid questions being asked about the
> most recent and past KO1A (IZ3EYZ) operations.  However, as someone
> noted, I was very sick for this contest and only put in 32 hours.  And
> those
> 32 hours were not my best.  Had I been in "fighting form", I would have
> easily been north of 5 Million points for this contest.
>
> So part of the "win" is that."
>
> Goodness! When one of the chosen W1 elites doesn't win a DX contest
> the winner didn't have a "win", they had a win and you didn't. No quotation
> marks needed.
>
> 73, Bill ZF2SS / KO7SS
>
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