KU8E wrote:
>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...
Jeff:
The overall point I was trying to make is that I don't feel any
particular QTH has an advantage in NAQP on any given weekend. Some may
have a slight disadvantage, like W1 or W8, but no particular location
is ahead for ability to win NAQP - it just depends on the weekend.
The west coast had a good run this January, all those guys in the top
10 on both modes are good operators, and the propagation went their way
this time. Had it gone more to a southeast weekend, the 4's could have
dominated or at least been on par with the west. Or the 9's?
To illustrate the point, here is the top 10 for the January 2003
NAQP CW from ncjweb.com
1 N9RV IN 2 N2IC CO 3 N6MJ(@W6KP) CA 4 W4AN GA 5 W6EEN(N6RT) CA
6 W4PA TN 7 N2NL FL 8 N2NC NJ 9 W9RE IN 10 K7RAT(N6TR) OR
Three west coast, one Colorado, two W9's, three W4's and a W2.
>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
>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.
I agree - even in NAQP, which is now the biggest domestic contest
behind Sweepstakes, it is hard to be competitive for the top 10 with a
tribander and wires. That's simply because there are many stations
that were built to be competitive in big contests that are now in use
for NAQP as well.
>>2) Operated from the Carribean... (ZF2NT)
Ah, (let's not start the fracas again, but....) I don't think the
Caribbean has an advantage for NAQP like it does for SS. You still
have to get all those multipliers and Q's per band rather than just
sitting up on 10 meters being the only signal on the band in North
America and working everyone one time. Bruce was only slightly ahead
on QSO's and was not the top multiplier finisher. He has the high
claimed score because he's sharp. But he is in a dead heat with N6MJ
for point total and the log checking is going to decide the winner this
time. Both of them (MJ and NT) could have finished 8th or 10th or
something had it been a different weekend. You never know.
Scott W4PA
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