Topband: DXCC Fairness

[n8ie at woh.rr.com]

The heck with it all, if you hear it, that's good enough.
Free 5 Band DXCC for everyone!

Or better yet, the much coveted D-Star DXCC Award. Ohhhhhhhhhhh

---- mstangelo at comcast.net wrote: 
> Jim,
> 
> You can't have your cake and eat it. The West coast has nicer weather than the East coast but the left coast ocean is larger...
> 
> Maybe there should be an award based on Grid Squares.
> 
> Mike N2MS
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> To: 'TopBand' <topband at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:17:35 -0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Topband: DXCC Fairness
> 
> Talk about DXCC fairness -- it's FAR easier to work DXCC with a modest 
> station anywhere around the Atlantic, or within 1000 km of it, than it 
> is from the Pacific.  I've got a very nice antenna farm and have taken 
> the time to become a competitive contester, but I am almost never able 
> to work DXCC in a weekend contest, all bands combined. But guys on the 
> east coast consider it trivially easy. The difference is especially 
> striking on Topband -- there are often openings from EU to eastern NA, 
> whereas we might HEAR a dozen signals a YEAR out here in California.  It 
> took me four years to work 100 countries on 160, and two years later I'm 
> at 125. I haven't heard EU for two years.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
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