And, as you said earlier, W1 has more hours of darkness to rack up the 10
pointers from Europe. That's why I think it is great that your station and
Peter's (K3ZM in southern Virginia) were able to beat K1DG and K8PO (both in
Maine, I believe) last weekend.
It seemed to me that conditions to Europe from Georgia were better this year
than last. I worked far more Europeans this year.
73,
Jim AD4J
On Feb 4, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Tom W8JI wrote:
>> It will be very hard to outscore VY2ZM when Jeff can work Europe at noon
>> local time. This past weekend, VY2ZM finished with twice the scores of
>> K1DG and K8PO (the top 2 US finishers last year). However, in the CQ 160
>> contests, Canada and stateside are in separate categories, so VY2ZM
>> doesn't matter. I think it's encouraging that the top two finishers in
>> SOHP this year were both in the South (K3ZM in Virginia and Tom here).
>
> Right. VY2ZM is so far east and north and in Canada where points are
> different for USA contacts, so it no longer matters. Non-issue totally.
>
> The USA is still close, but here are some statistics to Germany:
>
> My QTH 42 degrees 4644 mi 1885 miles to clear saltwater (VO1)
> W1 50 degrees 3706 miles 886 miles to clear saltwater (VO1)
> VY2 3195 miles 460 miles to clear saltwater (VO1)
>
> 73 Tom
>
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