Tor/Steve,I'm surprised you guys say you have only one decent band to run on in
a domestic contest. From where I am in Georgia the skip zone is pretty good
during the day on 20 meters to populated areas. Occasionally 15 and 10 meters
open pretty good to those same areas so it's pretty easy to run two bands. If
15/10 aren't open I'm still close enough to some populated areas like the
mid-Atlantic, Florida and W8/W9 to work lots of stations on 40 when running on
20 meters. At night when 40 meters gets long I can still work the east coast
and W8/9/0 pretty good. I'm also close enough to populated areas that 80 meters
is good. I would think MS and MN wouldn't be much different. The only
frustration I have especially in the CWT, NS and CW Sprint is those who have
beams on the east coast usually have them pointed west and I'm off the side so
I usually lose those jump balls to someone to the west.JeffSent from my
Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: "steve.root via CQ-Contest"
<cq-contest@contesting.com> Date: 6/5/20 9:31 AM (GMT-05:00) To: RT Clay
<rt_clay@bellsouth.net>, cq-contest@contesting.com Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest]
What's your Opinion on 2BSIQ ? > Overall I think 2BSIQ amplifies the score
difference between good and poor locations. It can increase the scores of
favored locations quite a bit, but it can't be used effectively much of the
time if you are not in a favored location. It's the same in domestic contests-
if you are in the center of the country and can only run effectively on one
band due to the skip zone, 2BSIQ isn't going to help much.> > Tor N4OGWExactly.
I find SO2R of limited usefulness because most of the time there's only one
"good" band open.73 Steve
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