[CQ-Contest] NAQP and the (midwest)(south)east coast

[Bob Wruble]

advantage to NW stns ?..... gess u have not contested from here!!
de w7gg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott R." <w4pa at yahoo.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:30 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] NAQP and the (midwest)(south)east coast


> KU8E wrote:
> 
> >NAQP favors the West Coast big time !!!!  No way I am going make
> 400->500 QSO's and 45 mults on both 160 and 80 to counter what you guys
> do >on 15 and 10 meters... We are also are starting to see 40 go long
> >early now which gives the West Coast even more of an advantage.
> 
> Mmmmm - I do see that in this year's January NAQP there is a high
> proportion of west coast stations in the top 10 on both modes, but I
> have never felt that they have an advantage over the southeast in this
> contest.  I'd judge it to be about equal.  Yes, if 10 stays open for a
> long time and the low bands are noisy (as happened on SSB this month),
> the west coast is going to win it.  If 10 meters tanks and we have a
> quiet night on the low bands, forget it, there is nobody out in W6/W7
> that is going to win NAQP over the W4's.  And then N9RV gets in there
> with a bunch of top 5's and confuses the whole issue further.  
> 
> Once the sunspot cycle drops, it's not going to get any easier on the
> west coast for a good showing in the NAQP's.   
> 
> "East coast" isn't a real good catch-all descriptor out here anyway -
> my contest QTH in Tennessee is longitudinally directly south of
> Indianapolis.  
> 
> Scott W4PA
> 
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