Topband: The East Coast Advantage

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

Sorry, Jim.  Even if contests were scored using grids or 
fields as multipliers and distance for QSO scoring, the 
northeast US would have an advantage among US stations 
and south-central Europe would have an advantage worldwide 
just because of the distribution of activity (and potential 
activity).  

Activity density in the Pacific, Caribbean/South America, 
Africa and Central Asia is just too low for western US, 
southern US, Central/South America, eastern Europe or 
Africa (other than the very northern portion) to compete. 
No objective scoring system is going to balance the 50 - 
80% higher QSO totals of the "favored" areas.  In addition, 
since the "committees" that run most of the major contests 
are heavily biased to the same "favored geographies" they 
are not going to make the hard choices necessary in any 
case. 

73, 

   ... Joe, W4TV 
  



> -----Original Message-----
> From: topband-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Brown
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:48 PM
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: The East Coast Advantage
> 
> 
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:38:13 -0700, Milt, N5IA wrote:
> 
> >I personally lobbied to have the time dropped back three hours, but 
> >feel
> >good that the two hours was given.
> 
> I don't think that's part of the problem. SCORING RULES are 
> the problem.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Jim K9YC
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> 160 meters is a serious band, it should be treated with 
> respect. - TF4M