[CQ-Contest] NA February Sprint

[Bill Haddon]

Ted, W4NZ Wrote to Cq-Contest:

> In the Northern California Contest Club's annual Sprint "Ladder"
>competition  . . . .
>Apparently someone recognized that there must be some
>geographical/propagational bias that warranted these groupings.

hmmm . .actually we just wanted to give out another bottle of wine :-)
 But it's hit a snag .. some guy called W4NZ won the East div
competition in '08, and TN is on of a vanishing small # of states to
which we can't ship wine from CA.  We have a 4th div also,
"newcomers". . and guess what. . N9RV operating from his new MT QTH
took that one .  And. . would you believe. . . MT is the one two
states in the West to which we can't ship wine from CA.  Maybe we're
seeing a correlation here, but I sure hope not, since our new QTH at
Mt. Dali Dona, CA includes a small winery.  At least Danny K7SS will
get his bottle shortly for winning the West (non-NCCC in CA/NV).
We're having to get creative for the other two. (Ted, Pat I'll write
you separately shortly).

73 Bill n6zfo
Contest Director for NCCC Sprint Ladder competition.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Ted Bryant <W4NZ at comcast.net> wrote:
> On the 3830 reflector, Andy N2NT asked:
>
> "...Anyone for moving the Feb sprint an hour earlier or to 160m? Well, at
> least till the spots come back..."
>
> Interesting ideas, Andy.
>
> In the Northern California Contest Club's annual Sprint "Ladder"
> competition, there are three competitive categories. One is strictly for
> NCCC members but the other two divide the U.S. into two groups: stations
> East and West of the Mississippi River.  Apparently someone recognized that
> there must be some geographical/propagational bias that warranted these
> groupings. Also, the Ladder competition is held across 20/40/80 and 160
> meters. Applying the NCCC Ladder competition's categories to the claimed
> scores for the FEBRUARY Sprint CW for the last 5 years shows some
> interesting details.
>
> # stations in top 20:   West of the Miss      East of the Miss
>  2005                         16                    4
>  2006                         17                    3
>  2007                         14


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