On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:45:45 -0700 (PDT), Julius Fazekas wrote:
>> And even
>> then, W3DQ managed to come through loud and clear to work
>> me in the middle of a JA run.
>W3DQ runs HP, not sure what he has for antennas,
I know Eric fairly well. He runs 500W from a city lot in DC. Far
from being a big gun, and he doesn't hear very well.
>Do you hear us when we call and you're running Asia?
Usually by the time I'm running Asia the East Coast has gone to bed.
I can't begin working them until their sunset, which is around 1am
PST. But if you're there, I can often hear those with decent TX
antennas. I've got a fairly quiet QTH, but even running 1.5kW into a
90 ft vertical and lots of radials, there are guys with S7 signals
that I can't work.
>I've often ran Wyoming, by working KO7X. I'll bet you can come up
with a couple hours with a half dozen Tennessee stations logged.
TN is rarely a problem for us, but SC, RI, DC, and all the NY
sections usually are. And MB, ND and the sparsely populated VEs are
a problem for everyone!
>Maybe sub dividing the Western States?
The Stew Perry formula is essentially distance and power on both
ends. You get points for distance, multipliers for pulling a weaker
signal out of the noise AND for running lower power. I could
envision scoring that uses grids rather than countries as mults and
scores each QSO based on the distance between grid center. With
computing power, that's not that tough to score!
>Have the same problems with the various Asian contests. For me a
>good performance has been a dozen JA QSOs...
Yes, Asian contests are easy on this coast, and EU contests are easy
on the east coast.
>The West Coast may be in for a better than average season, seems
>like I've heard guys out there working EU and EU wasn't even ESP in
> Tn.
I've worked one EU station on 160M this season. For us to work EU,
propagation has to be skipping over the east and central US and be
good to us. That's REAL rare. :)
73,
Jim K9YC
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