I think the ARRL 160 - along with ARRL DX was designed to put the focus on
DX stations to work the USA/VE for awards such as WAS etc... I see nothing
wrong with that - we have contests such as WAE - that you work all EU or
the All-Asia where you work only JA/Asia and no one complains about their
rules. I think allowing DX to DX contacts would be a bad thing because the EU
stations work basically work each other and the QRM would be so bad that very
few would work many USA stations...
I can relate to the frustration of the DX stations because I have been on
the DX end for ARRL 160 before... but I would tell them that if you are more
interested in working DX on 160 then plan your trip for the CQWW 160 CW at the
end of January....
Jeff KU8E
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