RayLook back at past results for the February CW Sprint. Just about every year
at least 7 of the top 10 stations in the High Power category are either on the
west coast, Texas, NM or Colorado. For the most part the guys that make it to
the top 10 from east of the Mississippi all have nice stations and are SO2R
aficionados. So of course the stations out west will benefit from another hour
that they can operate on 20 meters.I would like to see an experiment to have
February Sprints be 160-80-40 meters and September Sprints 20-40-80 meters. No
matter the rules I will always be on for the CW Sprint. It's always been one of
my favorites.JeffSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Raymond Benny <rayn6vr@gmail.com> Date:
2/4/21 12:10 AM (GMT-05:00) To: ku8e <ku8e@ku8e.com> Cc: Randy Thompson
<k5zd@outlook.com>, James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>, CQ-Contest Reflector
<cq-contest@contesting.com> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Feb Sprint time changes
Here on the West Coast its really not a big advantage, in my mind. Normally, we
all move to 40m within 30 minutes since there are no East Coast to work. Its
like 20m turns into a dead band. And, because of this we often miss the hard
to find NE mults that are generally easier to work on 20m.The East side of the
US also has the density advantage especially on 40m & 80m. There are times when
I will reply to a loud W1, 2, or 3 CQ and get beat out by a W2 that I don't
even hear. And when competing to work a rare W1 or VE/VO mult, we are at
another disadvantage since often everyone in the US is calling them too.
Distance makes a difference on the low bands!My thoughts...Ray,N6VROn Wed, Feb
3, 2021, 8:32 PM ku8e <ku8e@ku8e.com> wrote:Why not in the future have an
experiment and have the Sprint be 160-80-40 meters?I agree starting an hour
earlier will give more advantage to the west coast.JeffSent from my Verizon,
Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Randy Thompson <k5zd@outlook.com> Date:
2/3/21 7:29 PM (GMT-05:00) To: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>,
CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest@contesting.com> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Feb
Sprint time changes The actual goal of moving an hour earlier is to reduce the
West "advantage". In the last few years, 20m has only been open in the Eastern
USA for a short time after the start. This reduces it to a two band contest
for half the country. They guys out West, being 2-3 hours behind in daylight
time, had more time to make QSOs on 20, while not really impacting their QSO
totals on 40 and 80.The hope is that by starting an hour early, everyone will
get more time on 3 bands. This may not solve everything, but it should make
the game more fun for more people.Randy K5ZD-----Original Message-----From:
CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+k5zd=outlook.com@contesting.com> On Behalf Of
James CainSent: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 12:21 PMTo: CQ-Contest Reflector
<cq-contest@contesting.com>Subject: [CQ-Contest] Feb Sprint time changes"The
February 6 *NCJ*
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North American Sprint(CW) and the March 13 RTTY Sprint will begin 1 hour
earlier, at 2300 UTC instead of 0000 UTC. Both contests will end at 0259 UTC.
An earlier start time will give participants in the north and east a larger
window for 20-meter activity." (ARRL news page).Since participants in "the
West" already have an advantage in domestic contests, doesn't this time change
just give them an extra hour to work more stations in the "north and east" and
increase their advantage?Here are the 3830 CW Sprint February 2020 top ten:N2IC
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