True enough Robert, but you might be missing the point.
You could roughly say that (rounding up) 50% of your QSOs were
US and 50% were EU. Of those 50% EU, how many were 0 pointers (in
your own country)? Probably not many.
Let's look at my 1997 20M effort in WPX:
160 80 40 20
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USA calls = 0 0 0 662
VE calls = 0 0 0 92
N.A. calls = 0 0 0 61
S.A. calls = 0 0 0 120
Euro calls = 0 0 0 612
Afrc calls = 0 0 0 38
Asia calls = 0 0 0 13
JA calls = 0 0 0 57
Ocen calls = 0 0 0 35
Total calls = 0 0 0 1690
One could round up and say that 50% of my QSO's were USA, and 50% were
EU. But guess what? 50% of my log represented ZERO points!
So I spent about half of my time talking to zero pointers, while you were
getting credit for the majority of your QSOs. How about you telling
me exactly how many 0 point QSO's were in your log (excluding dupes)?
I bet not 662 out of 1690!
Chad WE9V
At 08:05 PM 3/2/99 , you wrote:
>
>Hi Group,
>I read Mike NO6X posting tonight regarding his experiences operating
>from Macedonia last year in WPX ssb. I note his comment "wanna talk
>about a qso party???"
>
>CQ WPX CQWW
>N.A 43.0 % N.A 48.9 %
>S.A 3.1 % S.A 1.9 %
>E.U 43.7 % E.U 43.4 %
>A.S 7.9 % A.S 3.8 %
>A.F 1.1 % A.F 1.3 %
>O.C 1.1 % O.C 0.7 %
>
>I know its only one example from one station but not sure looking at
>those figures how WPX under the past rules could ever have been
>described as an EU qso party.
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