Regardless of SO2R or station size, a bigger difference in the January scores
comes from propagation. It's hard to beat the high-band (or even 40m) skip zone
in January if you live in the east or midwest.
Tor
N4OGW
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On Tue, 8/7/18, Jeff Clarke <ku8e@ku8e.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] It's time for an Assisted category in NAQP
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2018, 9:49 AM
Not only that. For years the
powers to be have been saying that having
everyone run low power levels the playing
field. Sorry but that's not
true. In
the January NAQP SSB I ran high power to prove a point. I
made
860 QSO's in about 9 hours. The
top SOLP score made 1525 QSO's. BTW I
didn't submit my log. The playing field
isn't level because the majority
of the
top scores operate from bigger stations and they do SO2R,
probably dual CQing on two different bands.
Is that fair that someone
with a smaller
station has to be grouped into the same category? I wish
more contest sponsors would have a
tribander/wires category like they do
in
some of the CQ contests.
Jeff
On 8/7/2018 09:48 AM, N4ZR wrote:
> Judging by the commentary recently on
various reflectors (and my own
>
experience last weekend), it is time for NAQP to institute
an Assisted
> category, rather than
lumping all one-transmitter assisted stations
> into Multi-2. The M-2 class's band
change rule makes zero sense for
> one
transmitter assisted - I'll be losing credit for some
QSOs because
> it never occurred to me
that it would cover a single-transmitter
> competitor.
>
> ARRL 160 CW and ARRL 10M contests got rid
of this anachronism a few
> years ago -
it's time for NAQP to follow suit. I don't know
who
> decides such things, but trust
that Chris will know who needs to take
>
action.
>
--
*Jeff Clarke*
Information Technology Professional
Ellerslie, Georgia
KU8E.com <http://www.ku8e.com/>
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