Well, I certainly consider MYSELF to be in serious competition with
the east coast (in June and July) !
I can't speak for others not located east of the Mississippi River or
within reach of the grid-cir.....uh, motivated Rover groups in SoCal,
but I suspect they consider themselves competitors, too.
I'd certainly be pleased to work you on 6 through 432. . .
Jay W9RM
Keith J Morehouse
Managing Partner
Calmesa Partners G.P.
Olathe, CO
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Bill Junor <junorwider@msn.com> wrote:
> 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@calmesapartners.com
>> To: VHFcontesting@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@msn.com> wrote:
>> > Terry.
>> >
>> > Yours is a very East-Coast-centric view of VHF/UHF contesting.
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