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Re: [CQ-Contest] Makrothen - An Exercise In Frustration

To: "ko7ss@yahoo.com" <ko7ss@yahoo.com>, "cq-contest@contesting.com" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Makrothen - An Exercise In Frustration
From: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@sbelectronics.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 08:55:57 -0400
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Bill - KO7SS stated:
"All of contesting is suffering from a relatively fixed number of participants, 
most of which can be worked quickly in a short time using CQing and clicking on 
bandmap spots. This is worse in RTTY contests, which generally allow Skimmer 
use across all entry classes. I got on for the last 2 hours and made 102 Q's on 
20M in 2 hours, it was good fun!"

Bill, that may be the case in Arizona and for domestic contests, but it is not 
in DX contests and especially from the east coast.  I can have close to 100 
hours in the last 6 hours of a 48 hour contest like CQ WW or ARRL DX or WPX.  
It depends on the contest and location.

Another point made before and should be repeated here.  A distance scoring 
format does change the score per Q and helps the West Coast even the scoring.  
But it does not create rate per hour.  That is a function of participants, 
prop, and how loud you are.  

Ed  N1UR

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