I wouldn't call western MD, any of our WV or PA coverage, or central and
south central VA, or Delaware and the Eastern Shore, or the northern line
of NC counties heavily populated. And we cover all of Chesapeake Bay and
Pamlico Sound/Outer Banks, and a stretch of the Atlantic ocean as big as
Delaware plus Eastern Shore MD/VA, for our share of maritime mobile
coverage.
I would also point out that NCCC holds the record for most logs submitted
in the SS club competition. And they have beaten us in a year we didn't
have circle problems. No slouches, they, and capable of whomping us if
they are really at it.
To our credit (PVRC) we have turned BIC into a regional household word that
has no relation to lighting up. We also have a lot of intra-club
rivalries and running against personal records going on. Also little guys
with dipoles and wire antennas can get on and make top quartile scores,
primarily using BIC. Quite different from the DX tests. I've recently
worked SS with no more than a 40m inverted vee at 55 feet, operating only
on 40 and 15m.
And as to "too many", people have to be kidding. ANYTHING to liven up
Sunday afternoon. From memory, still looking for some of those days that
it takes two hours for one S&P pass on 10 meters wall-to-wall with west
coast stations.
73, Guy.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Jim Jordan, K4QPL <k4qpl@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Very true. LACK of activity ruins contests. SS suffers from that to a
> considerable degree in that unlike many contests, you can't work the same
> station on another band. Makes for a very slow Sunday, but fun for the
> casuals who jump in then as "fresh meat".
>
> In fairness to NCCC, and other clubs as well, I would think demographics
> gives PVRC an advantage. With our circle stretching from 3 of the 4 major
> population centers in NC through VA, parts of WVA, MDC, DE and a bit of PA,
> there is a huge population from which to draw contesters and logs when we
> push--which is what has been done. No matter where the NCCC guys put the
> center of their circle they're going to get either a lot of ocean or a lot
> of sparsely populated area, or both, on the sides.
>
> Not that we intend to give up any ground....:-)
>
> 73,
>
> Jim, K4QPL
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Widelitz" <widelitz@gte.net>
> To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 11:10 PM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Have NCCC and PVRC ruined SS?
>
>
> How can more activity ruin SS? Once you get a sweep, it's all about
>> finding
>> stations you haven't worked before. You don't care where they are. And if
>> you haven't gotten a sweep yet, you still want to work as many as you can
>> and you don't care where they are.
>>
>> 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
>>
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