[Mldxcc] CQWW SSB Lack of Pacific stations

[Dennis Moore]

I will admit that I haven't been doing this very long, so I don't really 
have a reference to past contests. Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan are 
rare for me so the fact that I got them with no trouble may be skewing 
my perspective.

Dennis


On 10/31/2017 08:56, Rick Samoian wrote:
> As an official "old fart", this is my 50th CQWW Contest.  Asia
> (particularly Japan), and the pacific was the key to the west coast
> having a reasonably competitive score with the rest of the country. The
> 15M JA runs were practically endless, those of you who were licensed
> before 1985 know what I am talking about. So............... I guess I'm
> just lamenting the loss of the west coast equalizers............de Rick,
> W6SR
>
> On 10/31/2017 8:37 AM, Dennis Moore wrote:
>> I thought the Pacific was fine. China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea,
>> Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, Guam, Hawaii, Indonesia, Marianas, NZ,
>> Papua New Guinea, and Tonga, equally distributed among 15, 20, and 40.
>> I heard 4-5 different Philippines and some Thailand but couldn't get
>> them, I rarely do.
>>
>> Dennis

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