Topband: The East Coast Advantage

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Being in Utah I cannot break into the top 5. I am satisfied with winning my
state and working to beat the competiion from my QTH to the US West coast.

      Dave WX7G

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:52 AM, W2RU - Bud Hippisley
<W2RU at frontiernet.net>wrote:

>
> On Oct 30, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Julius Fazekas wrote:
>
> >  Like most others, [I] follow my friends' scores.
>
>
> Yes!  Yes!  Yes!
>
> Unfortunately, I find the QST editorial emphasis on "Top Ten" boxes
> for all the major contests works against the local competition
> interest factor.  Yes, I know, I can go to the interactive database on
> the ARRL web site and examine scores in my section, for instance, but
> I could also go there and just as well construct any kind of Top Ten
> list I choose.  (But someone please explain to me how limiting the on-
> line contest results to ARRL members builds interest in these contests
> or membership in ARRL.  Imagine going to college to take courses but
> being told at the end of the semester you can't know what your final
> grades are because you don't have your degree yet.)
>
> While being near the east coast is nice, the competition is heavy
> because of our high [ham] population density.  The odds of winning my
> division are pretty low and I, for one, sustain my interest by
> competing with others in my section or my local club or by adding to
> my club's score.  Back when QST printed all the scores, I used to read
> the section results not just for my own section but for many of the
> sections of the USA or elsewhere in the world because of where many of
> my friends had landed.  These days the Top Ten tallies in the QST
> write-ups  are of almost zero interest to me in the absence of all the
> scores from the rest of us, who are "mere mortals" compared to the
> winners.
>
> Bud, W2RU
>
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