Tom, To my knowledge there has been NO whining during this entire thread. And I am certainly not making any excuses. I and others have been stating the facts as demonstrated by the statistics. What I
Approximate distances to Germany: Ma 3800 WPa (K3LR) 4150 Mn 4400 Wi 4400 IL 4500 Mid GA 4700 Doesn't seem like distance is the main issue to me. 73 Tom _____________________________________________
Hi Milt But, what if your competitor is running a quarter mile and you are running a half mile. You ain't gonna win many races :-) 73 Tom W7WHY I am a competitor. I often liken amateur radio contesti
This is how well thought out this has been. W9RE is around 300 miles closer to Germany than I am. I have vastly better propagation, but would get an edge over Mike. Why would anyone want that? The pa
Tom, You have some good thoughts regarding this topic. There are a lot of variables which cannot and should not be messed with. The station and operator are the most important variables and should al
Exactly. Path is more important than distance, yet this has been illogically been driven by the incorrect assumption distance is the primary problem. Based on what happens here and looking at skimme
Tom, you are absolutely correct. Working West Africa from out here in 6-land is a piece of cake even though we are much further away than the east coast. Northern Europe is a totally different even t
"However, the "poor saps" as you call them would be more competitive with everyone closer to Europe. Because of where the vast majority of contacts to be made are located, everyone farther from Europ