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

[ku8e at bellsouth.net]

W4PA Wrote :

>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


NAQP SSB High Claimed Scores from 3830 :

All Single Op LP
N6NF              1851   250    10    462,750 
N6MJ(@W6KP)       1703   262    10    446,186 SCCC #1
K6LL              1586   264    10    418,704 SCCC #1
K7RL              1595   260    10    414,700 WWDXC
W6EEN(N6RT)       1422   268    10    381,096 SCCC #1
K9PG(@WB9Z)       1221   289    10    352,869 SMC #1
W7GG              1429   235    10    335,580 Orygun Staight
K6LA              1257   248    10    311,736 SCCC #1
K5CM(W5AO)        1376   221  9:52    304,096 TCG
W7EJ              1296   231    10    299,376 Orygun Staight

 8 of 10 from West Coast



NAQP CW High Claimed Scores for 3830 :

All Single Op LP
ZF2NT             1314   280    10    367,920 NCCC #1
N6MJ(@W6KP)       1290   285    10    367,650 SCCC #1
N9RV              1278   276    10    352,728 SMC #1
N6ZZ              1161   278    10    322,758 Azenmokers 3
W4PA(@K4JNY)      1169   270    10    315,630 TCG #1
K6LL              1214   259    10    314,426 SCCC #1
N2NC(@N2NT)       1092   269    10    293,748 FRC
N6RO              1086   263    10    285,618 NCCC #1
W7RN(K5RC)        1098   260    10    285,480 NCCC #1
N6NF              1121   250          280,250 

 6 of 10 from West Coast


 Guess I am missing something in Scott's logic... According to my numbers 80% of the top 10 on SSB was from the West Coast and 60% on CW . The only people who made the top 10 on either mode from other than the West Coast...

1) Operated from a large well known station and are great operators and 
   masters  at SO2R - an unbeatable combination..
  (i.e K9PG on SSB,  N9RV,N2NC,W4PA on CW) or

2) Operated from the Carribean... (ZF2NT)


 You have almost no chance from a station with a plain tribander and wires or less........

  I'm sorry but a tribander/wire station is no match against a multi stacked yagi station. It surprises me that many people can't see that. 

                      Jeff