DARC puts on a party which favors DL/EU, JARL puts on a party which favors
JA/AS, SRR puts on a party which favors UA, and it follows that ARRL or CQ will
put on a party which favors W/NA. Funny how that works!
73, de Hans, K0HB
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Charles Harpole <hs0zcw@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is very telling that, until an American ham like me and lately Bob
> (N6BK+HS), move to South East Asia that we realize just how much ARRL and
> many CQ contests are skewed to serve the good ole USA/NA hams. Being in
> SEA has shown me that many of these skewed contests are really more like
> WAE or other localized contests, these favor USA/NA.
> In earlier msg here, I pointed this out in detail, but interestingly not
> one of five responders got the skewing but instead invited me to move back
> to USA. I tried to explain why hams outside USA are not wildly
> enthusiastic about getting on to help USA hams have a higher score. But,
> these are not "our" contests out here in the rest of the world. When the
> 295,000 licensed hams in Thailand upgrade to HF privileges, we will be the
> "second JAs" and the world may tilt a little more fairly. Big smile and
> no kidding.
> 73, Charly HS0ZCW
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Bob Kupps <n6bk@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >>>>Bob: I think the history of this is that it was done to encourage
>> expeditions for the contests to North American island countries in the
>> Caribbean. It did that and their being there made those
>> multipliers available to everyone. It would be hard to change the rule
>> now that so many people have so heavily invested in stations in the
>> North American
>> Caribbean. Welcome back to contesting. Maybe we worked this weekend
>> from PJ4A (a Caribbean multiplier in South America). If not, hope to
>> work you again soon while we have good conditions to your part of the
>> world. Keep up the good work. 73, John, K4BAI.
>> Well John I just can't believe that all those Caribbean stations would
>> take down their towers and go home should they be required to play by the
>> same rules as everyone else. If I were competing in NA I certainly wouldn't
>> care to look at my score in the rankings knowing it was handicapped. 73 bob
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