Good afternoon John,
The Limited Antenna Overlays was quite popular this year. 373 participants
selected the overlay in 2024 SS CW and 483 in SS Phone.
73,
-Paul N1SFE
ARRL Contest Program Manager
On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 6:40 AM JOHN GEIGER via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote:
> I agree Jeff that this is a good idea, and I have thought this for a
> while. We have QRP awards and QRP categories in most contests and have for
> some time, but usually do not recognize the challenge which limited
> antennas pose to operating. CQ had the TB-Wires overlay, but that would
> include a TH7 at 100 feet and rotatable dipoles for the low bands, not
> exactly limited.
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> It will be interesting to see how many entered the limited antenna
> category in the SS this past year.
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> 73 John AF5CC
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> ---- On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:33:39 -0600 Jeff Clarke <ku8e@ku8e.com> wrote
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> I was just wondering if the sponsors of the NAQP would consider adding a
> Limited Antenna category like both the ARRL and CQ contests have? The
> top scores in both SO-Unassisted and SO-Assisted categories are always
> the same people who have large stations with big antennas. Many have
> touted the NAQP's as having a level the playing field because everyone
> (except the QRP guys) are running 100 watts. That's not really the case
> because you really have to look at ERP not output power. Someone running
> 100 watts and yagis isn't equal to someone running 100 watts and a dipole.
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> I bet there would be a lot of entries in a limited antenna category.
> Many more than the QRP category which NAQP has. The looked at the last
> NAQP CW published results. That was August 2024. There were 850 entries
> in that contest. I counted only 55 QRP entries. That comes out to only
> 6% on the submitted scores. I didn't check the SSB results but I bet it
> was even lower since the QRP guys tend to prefer CW. Personally, being
> stuck with limited antennas I would like my score compared to someone
> who has a station similar to mine.
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> Maybe make the rules similar to the ARRL overlay :
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> Limited Antennas Overlay – Operation is limited to the use of
> single-element antennas such as a single vertical, end-fed wire, or a
> single dipole antenna no more than 50 feet above ground at its highest
> point. The antenna(s) may cover multiple bands, as in the case of
> multiband verticals and dipoles with fan or trap constructions.
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> Anyone else have any thoughts on this ?
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