Even in more recent times, CQWW hasn't been hopeless if you live west of the
Delaware River:
CQWW SSB 2013
N2IC/5 W5 SO HIGH ALL 7,529,827 4,338 169 472 45.7
On 12/02/2020 02:17 PM, Douglas Zwiebel wrote:
Well, JB says he is bored on the west coast.
That it is only GREAT if you happen to be close to the Atlantic basin.
All you have to do is look at the annual stats for the number of entrants
to know that CQWW is a GREAT contest and exactly because it is a worldwide
contest.
See https://www.cqww.com/stats.htm
Timed for "best conditions" of the year.
Over 8,000 logs received each on cw and ssb.
DXCC assured every contest, even for QRPers
Over 3,000,000 QSOs per contest weekend
WAZ in a weekend often possible
From a world perspective, it IS a great contest.
Maybe from your geocentric perspective it isn't.
That's OK. There is room for everybody.
And if you are motivated, take a look at the USA winners from a few decades
ago.
JA used to be a huge population center for contesting.
East coast USA guys used to worry.
The West Coast has endless JAs to work and they only need to work 1 QSO per
EUR country.
The JA's are so well behaved, you can have huge runs. The West coast is
like heaven.
Times have changed. No reason for CQWW to change. Times will change again.
de Doug KR2Q
1983 AI6V SO HP ALL 3,576,528 2,947 139 296
1982 W1ZM SO HP ALL 3,182,460 1,790 150 470
1981 K1AR SO HP ALL 3,554,880 2,194 140 420
1980 K7RI SO HP ALL 2,972,846 2,674 127 256
1979 N7DD SO HP ALL 3,113,788 2,206 147 346
1978 W4DR SO HP ALL 2,727,108 1,842 127 386
1977 W3WJD SO HP ALL 2,377,560 1,713 128 357
1976 W1ZM SO HP ALL 1,885,050 1,470 106 344
1975 W7RM SO HP ALL 2,208,980 2,095 115 250
1974 W6RR SO HP ALL 1,346,880 1,304 108 260
1973 K6AHV SO HP ALL 1,635,039 1,537 125 244
1972 W6RR SO HP ALL 2,350,964 1,820 134 315
1971 W2PV SO HP ALL 1,355,360 116 116 314
1970 W6RR SO HP ALL 1,837,620 1,561 130 285
1969 K1KTH SO HP ALL 1,523,820 1,122 138 328
1968 W2PV SO HP ALL 1,314,403 1,107 114 305
1967 W4AXE SO HP ALL 1,301,776 1,094 127 286
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