In a message dated 7/28/2006 9:24:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
radiosporting@yahoo.com writes:
If you knew this about each participant...you could
easily compare your results to other similarly
equipped stations. Are there any other factors that I
may have overlooked?
Probably the biggest one of all.
Location.
The quality of propagation on paths to areas with the most contest activity.
This includes both qso activity (number of people active) and multiplier
activity (number of different multipliers active).
In DX contests from the USA this means the path to Europe. From outside the
USA it means the path to Europe and North America.
In domestic USA contests the differences are less pronounced, but mainly
it's the path to the Northeastern quarter of the country.
In VHF contests this means the path to the northeast. Mostly this requires
being in the Northeast, but when six meters is open it means being one Es hop
away.
Take a fairly decent station well located, and you'll beat just about
anything from elsewhere.
The rest is mostly window dressing.
73 - Jim K8MR
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