On Mon,1/26/2015 12:59 PM, David Siddall wrote:
Hi Jim,
It isn't surprising that you failed to work every station that was on
in a contest -- I never have either!
Unlike most DC contesters, I enter most contests with a full bore
effort. When I miss a mult like DC 2/3 of the time that it's a mult, and
it's often the only US mult I miss, it tells me that few DC ops are
serious contesters. But you still want to be a mult.
Please go through your 110,000 QSOs again looking for some of the
other multipliers. I suggest:
North Korea
Ethiopia
Vatican
Nepal
Your argument is that we should limit multiplier status to entities
that consistently participate.
My position is that we should not be ADDING mult status for entities
that don't support the contests where they are already multipliers. I
work most major contests (except DX and 160 contests) with 1.5kW and a
damned good antenna farm, including Beverages. If I'm missing DC 2/3 of
the time, their activity does not even come close to justify adding DC
as a mult. Remember -- RTTY RU mults count once -- that tells me no one
in DC was on the air in a serious way for RTTY RU in 2012 and 2014.
Do you really think that this is the way to promote contest activity?
I think it's irrelevant to promoting contest activity. I talked earlier
about the difficulty of putting a decent station on the air in a major
city like DC. And when you make a single city a multiplier, it benefits
only those few guys who get on the air, and the close-in guys who can
work them (because most have limited antenna farms, noise, etc. If DC
is to be a multiplier, why not Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland,
Seattle, Denver, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Chicago,
Cleveland, Detroit, Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami, Boston, New York,
Philadelphia? I suspect that if we did the research, we would find most
of those cities have comparable area and greater population.
73, Jim K9YC
73, Dave
p.s. In fact, we met at a PVRC meeting in Maryland where you talked
about chokes. You're certainly welcome any time.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com
<mailto:k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>> wrote:
Hi David,
I just went through 8 years of logs, about 110,000 QSOs. K3VOA is
in my log once, for 2008 ARRL 10M. N8HM is in my log once -- 2014
WPX RTTY. W3HAC is in my log once, for SSB SS in 2014. W3DQ is in
my log five times. NN3RP shows up 10 times. KE3X is there for 32 Qs.
Looking at the last four years of contests where DC is a mult, I
worked DC in ARRL 10M in 2012 and 2014 (W1AW/3). I worked DC in
RTTY RU only in 2013. The last time I worked DC in CQ 160 was in
2011, when I worked W3DQ. Bottom line -- in contests where DC
counts as a mult, I worked DC in only about one third of them in
the last four years.
To be fair, this does not include my W6BX and KU6W logs. I use
W6BX for split-site operation in SS, and KU6W for most WPX.
I know about the DC lunch meeting -- W3DQ brought me along when my
XYL and I were staying with him and his lovely XYL Jennifer for a
few days on our way home from a Baltimore wedding.
73, Jim K9YC
On Sat,1/24/2015 4:03 PM, David Siddall wrote:
W1AW/3 (@K3VOA), N8HM, W3HAC, KE3X, W3DQ & NN3RP all were on
from D.C. in
the 2014 ten meter contest. But you would have to know the
callsigns to
recognize which "MD" stations were located in D.C. for NAQP
because some
signed "MD" to prevent others having logging problems. PVRC
even holds a
monthly meeting in downtown D.C. to which anyone interested in
contesting
is welcome, including anyone on this reflector.
There's activity and interest in DC, notwithstanding that
after 9-11
security at government buildings has made access difficult or
impossible
for non-employees at some of the better club stations that
used to get on
regularly. (I operated my first contest after college at
W3DOS in D.C.,
before being invited by K7UGA to join W3USS at the other end
of the Mall.)
73, Dave K3ZJ
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