That's the truth!
I like to dabble in UHF\VHF contesting. A good weekend may net me a 150 - 200
Q's between 6M and 70cm, I see posts from 2 landers with 500-600 Q's.
Run what you can, make the most of it, and have fun!
73
Dan, N8IE
---- k2qmf@juno.com wrote:
>
> LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION !!!!
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:57:05 -0400 <n8ie@woh.rr.com> writes:
> > 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@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@audiosystemsgroup.com>
> > > To: 'TopBand' <topband@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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