W4PA Wrote :
>Mmmmm - I do see that in this year's January NAQP there is a high
>proportion of west coast stations in the top 10 on both modes, but I
>have never felt that they have an advantage over the southeast in this
>contest. I'd judge it to be about equal. Yes, if 10 stays open for a
>long time and the low bands are noisy (as happened on SSB this month),
>the west coast is going to win it. If 10 meters tanks and we have a
>quiet night on the low bands, forget it, there is nobody out in W6/W7
>that is going to win NAQP over the W4's. And then N9RV gets in there
>with a bunch of top 5's and confuses the whole issue further.
>Once the sunspot cycle drops, it's not going to get any easier on the
>west coast for a good showing in the NAQP's.
>"East coast" isn't a real good catch-all descriptor out here anyway -
>my contest QTH in Tennessee is longitudinally directly south of
>Indianapolis.
>
>Scott W4PA
NAQP SSB High Claimed Scores from 3830 :
All Single Op LP
N6NF 1851 250 10 462,750
N6MJ(@W6KP) 1703 262 10 446,186 SCCC #1
K6LL 1586 264 10 418,704 SCCC #1
K7RL 1595 260 10 414,700 WWDXC
W6EEN(N6RT) 1422 268 10 381,096 SCCC #1
K9PG(@WB9Z) 1221 289 10 352,869 SMC #1
W7GG 1429 235 10 335,580 Orygun Staight
K6LA 1257 248 10 311,736 SCCC #1
K5CM(W5AO) 1376 221 9:52 304,096 TCG
W7EJ 1296 231 10 299,376 Orygun Staight
8 of 10 from West Coast
NAQP CW High Claimed Scores for 3830 :
All Single Op LP
ZF2NT 1314 280 10 367,920 NCCC #1
N6MJ(@W6KP) 1290 285 10 367,650 SCCC #1
N9RV 1278 276 10 352,728 SMC #1
N6ZZ 1161 278 10 322,758 Azenmokers 3
W4PA(@K4JNY) 1169 270 10 315,630 TCG #1
K6LL 1214 259 10 314,426 SCCC #1
N2NC(@N2NT) 1092 269 10 293,748 FRC
N6RO 1086 263 10 285,618 NCCC #1
W7RN(K5RC) 1098 260 10 285,480 NCCC #1
N6NF 1121 250 280,250
6 of 10 from West Coast
Guess I am missing something in Scott's logic... According to my numbers 80%
of the top 10 on SSB was from the West Coast and 60% on CW . The only people
who made the top 10 on either mode from other than the West Coast...
1) Operated from a large well known station and are great operators and
masters at SO2R - an unbeatable combination..
(i.e K9PG on SSB, N9RV,N2NC,W4PA on CW) or
2) Operated from the Carribean... (ZF2NT)
You have almost no chance from a station with a plain tribander and wires or
less........
I'm sorry but a tribander/wire station is no match against a multi stacked
yagi station. It surprises me that many people can't see that.
Jeff
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