There are a bunch of answers to your question: First UP4L's QSO rate was @67/hr
yours was 12. 12 Q's/hr won't get you anything in any contest. I'm not being
mean I'm being honest. You need to get experience under your belt and your
rates will go up. Ask yourself if you're not working at least 1 q/minute what
are you doing with that extra time? Ask yourself if you're in the contest to do
the best you can possibly do or are you in it to have fun, because you can't do
both. It is work to sit in front of a radio and type 60 contacts every hour for
hours at a time. It is work but has nice rewards when it's over.
You asked "" can working just 10 or so more hours, going high power with beams
and a tower make *that* much difference in scoring?? "" and the answer is a
resounding YES. Big towers and big aerials always beat no towers and poor
antennas. If you had one good antenna for one band and dedicated your
contesting effort to just that band you would have had a much better score. A
monoband dipole always beats a compromised dipole, always. Look at the stations
in the US that scored over a million. They all have towers and big aerials and
lots of contesting experience.
The most important I saved for last: When your call is UP4L everytime you call
CQ there are at least 100 stations calling you, when you're a W5(or W anything)
you're lucky if 10 stations call you. I'm surprised UP4L's score was that low.
You just have to work harder at it and the more you work at it the easier it
will become and the easier it becomes the higher your score will be. There is
only one secret to successful contesting, set all the equipment issues aside,
when the contest starts you're in your chair ready to go and when the contest
is over you get up from your chair. You whole entire function in life for that
12, 24, or 48 hour period is to contest, nothing more nothing less.
HAPPY CONTESTING
MAL N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
http://geocities.com/n7mal/
----- Original Message -----
From: KE5CTY Bob
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 18:54
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Operating Methods or Equipment?
This is really discouraging:
Not crying on anybody's shoulder, just trying to find out what I am
missing here:
I thought I did pretty well for my second contest *ever* and then I see
scores like the one below. As you can see, I was also SO(Single
Operator) but running LP(LowPower) and worked all bands CW(CW Only):
Call: KE5CTY
Operator(s): KE5CTY
Station: KE5CTY
Class: SO CW LP
QTH: USA - NTX
Operating Time (hrs): 15.95
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Mults
---------------------------
160: 0 0 0
80: 29 0 5
40: 39 0 7
20: 70 0 14
15: 39 0 10
10: 12 0 7
---------------------------
Total: 189 0 43 Total Score = 24,897
How can *one* person amass over a million points. There *must* be more
to this contesting than meets the eye. What operating methods are these
guys using? Are scores dependent more on operating methods or equipment?
Call: UP4L
Operator(s): UN7LZ
Station: UN7LZ
Class: SO CW HP
QTH: KOSTANAY
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Mults
---------------------------
160: 15 53 6
80: 167 697 30
40: 381 1688 48
20: 733 3309 61
15: 310 1422 39
10: 8 32 3
---------------------------
Total: 1614 7201 187 Total Score = 1,346,587
Granted I operated a *few* less hours, was Low Power and working on a
fan dipole 10-80 antenna up 25 feet at the apex, but even so, can
working just 10 or so more hours, going high power with beams and a
tower make *that* much difference in scoring??
7&3 fer nw,
Bob
KE5CTY (old calls WB5ZQU - WY5L)
10X# 37210
FP#-1141
http://www.qsl.net/ke5cty/
Code may be taking a back seat for now, but the pioneering spirit that
put the code there in the first place is out front of it all.
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