The west coast isn't all that bad if you pick the right category. See
results below for 40 meter single band in 2019. W7WA and other west
coast stations have regularly won this category on SSB and sometimes on
CW going back many years. You're probably not going to win SOAB from the
west coast but a single band effort on 40 meters and up when the
conditions are right is very doable.
Jeff KU8E
*2019 CQWW DX SSB*
*Rank* *Call* *Cty* *Category* *Score* *QSOs* *Zn* *Cty* *Hours*
*Operator(s)* *Cert*
1 W7WA W7 SO HIGH 40M 250,614 818 32 87
31.3
2 K4MM W4 SA HIGH 40M 60,375 203 26 89 16.3
3 AB7E W7 SO HIGH 40M 37,497 277 26 61 11.1
4 KT4ZB W4 SA LOW 40M 36,378 164 19 67 15.2
*2019 CQWW DX CW*
1 W7WA W7 SO HIGH 40M 453,887 1,048 37 120
39.6
2 K7NJ W7 SA HIGH 40M 424,377 868 39 144
33.7
3 K7BV W4 SO HIGH 40M 411,417 1,077 33 120
22.4
4 N6CW W7 SO HIGH 40M 381,760 908 37 123
34.4
5 W3YY W4 SA HIGH 40M 332,010 703 36 134
18.3
On 12/2/2020 04:17 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.
Seehttps://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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