I agree with Steve, and will add a little more info. When the IARU HF
Championship began around 1977, with only ITU Zones as multipliers, it was
possible to win from areas in the world where it was unlikely to win in other
contests. In fact I was part of the M/S team which placed World High in 1979
from VE7WJ, and again World High M/S in 1980 from KH6XX. I believe I won for
the USA in 1984 from AI6V, SOAB.
Then it was decided to change the rules, as Steve noted, to add HQ stations,
which shifted the optimal areas of the world towards the East Coast and Europe
for this contest.
73, Rich, N6KT
On Saturday, December 5, 2020, 11:28:13 AM PST, Steve London
<n2icarrl@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/04/2020 11:07 AM, Jack Brindle via CQ-Contest wrote:
> The problem is that the path from the west coast to EU is over the pole,
> where signals tend to be greatly absorbed. This is unlike the east coast,
> which has a direct shot to EU.
>
> Perhaps a better solution would be to treat the members of the EU as a single
> entity for multi. This would make the situation quite similar to JA, where
> there are lots of Qs, but just one mult.
Once upon the time, the IARU contest didn't have HQ mults, just zone mults.
That
meant Europe was only 3 zones, not a zillion countries. Then those in charge
decided that having LU's winning IARU was unfair and added the HQ mults, which
are just defacto country mults.
73,
Steve, N2IC
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