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Re: [CQ-Contest] NAQP Rules

To: Jeff Clarke <ku8e@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] NAQP Rules
From: Rick Dougherty <rick@nq4i.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:55:47 -0800
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Could KU8E be trying to come over to the position i have advocated for so many 
years??
NQ4I

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> On Jan 12, 2014, at 1:58 PM, "Jeff Clarke" <ku8e@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> Am I the only one who has a big letdown when I check the 3830 scores and see 
> how badly I get beaten? I don’t know who figured out that someone like myself 
> who is running wire antennas (or someone with wires/tribander beam) can be 
> compared evenly to someone with a big station with multiple monoband beams on 
> towers just because we are both running 100 watts. That’s silly. Those big 
> stations would still probably beat me even if I ran a KW.  And it’s not 
> because I’m a poor operator.
> 
> Here are some ideas :
> 
> 1) Have both a SO2R class and a classic category (one radio) like they have 
> in CQWW .
> 2) Add a tribander/wires category
> 3) High and low power classes
> 4) Add an assisted category
> 5) Divide the US into regions and have top ten boxes for each of them. The 
> way conditions were yesterday the west coast had even more of an advantage 
> then they usually do because 15 and 10 meters were both open pretty good.
> 
> Don’t take this email the wrong way (as complaining) because I love NAQP CW 
> and the activity yesterday was great. It’s just a pretty stale contest 
> because the same 3 or 4 stations win every year for a long as I can remember. 
> Plus I would love to compete against someone who has a station more equal to 
> mine.
> 
> Jeff KU8E
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