Topband: Regional Results in 160 Contests

[Ward Silver]

There have been several posts on regional efforts in 160 contests, scoring inequities, etc.  While scoring is never going to be a path to the mythical Elysian Level Playing Field, you certainly can recognize competitive results away from the geographically-favored areas.  I have to point out, though, that the results authors have a limited amount of energy to devote to contest results.  Further, they simply don't know all the players, particularly regionally.  Recognizing those efforts is going to have come from the regional participants.  For example, I've been relatively successful in getting a group of regional authors to write up the ARRL Phone DX results from the perspective of every Division and continent.  This is probably beyond the time available for most of the ARRL authors, but there is no reason why a sidebar on your region couldn't be added to the Web version of the writeup.  If you would consider writing a review of the results from your locale, please contact the author of the contest results and I'm sure something can be worked out.

73, Ward N0AX
ARRL Contributing Editor