Even more interesting would be a break down of stations North versus South.
East/West is much less significant when it comes to propagation.
73 Steve K0SR
-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Bryant [mailto:W4NZ@comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 01:20 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] NA February Sprint
On the 3830 reflector, Andy N2NT asked: "...Anyone for moving the Feb sprint an
hour earlier or to 160m? Well, at least till the spots come back..."
Interesting ideas, Andy. In the Northern California Contest Club's annual
Sprint "Ladder" competition, there are three competitive categories. One is
strictly for NCCC members but the other two divide the U.S. into two groups:
stations East and West of the Mississippi River. Apparently someone recognized
that there must be some geographical/propagational bias that warranted these
groupings. Also, the Ladder competition is held across 20/40/80 and 160 meters.
Applying the NCCC Ladder competition's categories to the claimed scores for the
FEBRUARY Sprint CW for the last 5 years shows some interesting details. #
stations in top 20: West of the Miss East of the Miss 2005 16 4 2006 17 3 2007
14 6 2008 13 7 2009 14 6 # stations in top 10: West of the Miss East of the
Miss 2005 9 1 2006 9 1 2007 8 2 2008 6 4 2009 8 2 # stations in top 5
: West of the Miss East of the Miss 2005 5 0 2006 5 0 2007 5 0 2008 5 0 2009 5
0 To no one's surprise, I'm sure, these statistics show a pretty clear
advantage for stations West of the Mississippi River in the February CW Sprint.
Let's look at the statistics for the last 5 SEPTEMBER CW Sprints: # stations in
top 20: West of the Miss East of the Miss 2004 9 11 2005 14 6 2006 9 11 2007 10
10 2008 8 12 # stations in top 10: West of the Miss East of the Miss 2004 4 6
2005 8 2 2006 6 4 2007 4 6 2008 6 4 # stations in top 5: West of the Miss East
of the Miss 2004 2 3 2005 4 1 2006 4 1 2007 3 2 2008 4 1 The September Sprint
is much more equitable but it is still tough to break into the top 5 if you are
East of the Mississippi. So, to follow up on Andy N2NT's question: - Should
there be any changes made to the February Sprint? - Should the February Sprint
start an hour earlier? - Should 160m be added? (or replace 20m?) -or- - Should
Sprint results simply be reported with different/a
dditional categories? (sorry, Tree!) 73, Ted W4NZ
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