[VHFcontesting] Question to the group

[Bill Junor]

Keith.

What you say is true IF you believe that contesters in DM65, DM58 and other dark holes are in serious competition with the East Coast contesting hordes.  We are not and we will never be without some major changes in scoring.  Instead, we are competing regionally.  So, if I go to the trouble of building a 2.3GHz and up station in DM65 and make a few contacts, then I'd want my score to reflect that significant extra effort and expense over a regional station which just concentrates on 6, 2 and 70.  

If we weighted contest scores by the inverse of the local amateur radio population density then we can have flat scoring for all bands but that's never going to happen.

Bill / AI5I

> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 07:47:56 -0700
> From: w9rm at calmesapartners.com
> To: VHFcontesting at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Question to the group
> 
> East coast-centric view ?  It's anything but.
> 
> High points for QSO's above 222 is one of the east coasts big
> advantages.  They are the guys with the population to make that work
> for them.  Frankly, I'm surprised to hear a experienced east coast VHF
> contester like Terry make that statement.  Maybe there's hope for us
> barbarians out where we have a hard time working our own grid - on any
> band.
> 
> Jay W9RM DM58
> 
> Keith J Morehouse
> Managing Partner
> Calmesa Partners G.P.
> Olathe, CO
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Bill Junor <junorwider at msn.com> wrote:
> > Terry.
> >
> > Yours is a very East-Coast-centric view of VHF/UHF contesting.
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