I personally know that, when I go out for a Michigan or Ohio State QSO
Party, and stumble across a site which has 50 to 100' HAAT at ground
level in at least 3 directions, my 40' portable mast and wire antenna
will do MUCH MUCH better than at home or at a lower portable location.
It certainly doesn't hurt to find a county where there hasn't been a
fixed station entry in the past 2 or 3 years. Under such conditions,
even a dolt operator like me has won the QRP arena of both MiQP and
OHQP. I'm sure I couldn't have held a candle to the much higher scores
in the category when K8DD and W8MJ and others would decide to have a
"Battle of the QRP stations" in the MiQP with their much larger
antennae, etc.
So the complaints about "it ain't fair" have a very true basis. BUT, it
seems to me that there "Aint no way" that there can be a level playing
field, with operating skill as the only variable.
72/73 de n8xx Hg
QRP >99.44% of thet ime
On 12/9/2014 12:00 PM, cq-contest-request@contesting.com wrote:
Message: 1
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 09:12:47 -0400
From: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC2018 Qualifying
Qualifying should be based on the same philosophy. An excellent operator using
a typical home station will never outperform someone in the same region driving
a contest superstation. Perhaps there should be score reductions based on
antenna height and number of elements?
Ed VE4EAR
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Couldn't agree more Ed.
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