Here's a partial post I emailed to the Arizona Outlaws Contest Club reflector following the 2011 ARRL 160: "On the positive side the DX window from 1830-1835 was mostly well observed by W/VE and provided a haven for Caribbean, SA and EU stns to establish runs of their own altho no copy on the Euros here."
The window is a valuable asset for encouraging DX participation in what is for the most part a 160m Sweepstakes. The ARRL could change "should" to "shall" in Rule 6 thereby making compliance mandatory. With electronic log submission easy to enforce, just invalidate any QSOs by W/VE run stations in the window. I didn't participate in this year's ARRL 160 as I always enter contests SO Assisted and have had enough of being lumped in with multi-op in the results which is ridiculous IMHO. I'll be a non-participant in future ARRL contests with this policy but will continue to enjoy CQ and JA sponsored contests. I just hope to live long enough to see the ARRL establish a separate SO(A) category or merge SO(A) and SO(U). My 2 cents. 73/Pres, N6SS ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE SMILEYS FOR YOUR IM & EMAIL - Learn more at http://www.inbox.com/smileys Works with AIM®, MSN® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, ICQ®, Google Talk™ and most webmails _______________________________________________ Topband reflector - [email protected]
