[CQ-Contest] West of the Mississippi advantage?

[Richard F DiDonna NN3W]

I'm not saying I feel bad about it.  Its a simple fact.  Winter propagation 
favors longer distances with long skip.  Long skip typically favors hams in 
the west part of the country where the skip zones on 10, 15, and 20 favor 
hops into population center.  This is the same logic that is applied with 
Sweepstakes.  The difference in Sweepstakes being that multipliers and 
stations are worked once per contest, whereas multipliers and stations are 
worked once per band.

Stations on the east coast (mid atlantic) have equally long propagation 
during NAQP, but this  means we work stations in Arizona, Colorado, 
California, and, well, California...

73 Rich NN3W


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryon PAUL Veal n0ah" <bryonveal at msn.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] West of the Mississippi advantage?


> Pinch me with a bit of dry humor.................are you saying you are
> disappointed there is any contest known to mankind that stations east of 
> the
> Mississippi are at a disadvantage??  Contesting for 16 years west of the
> Mississippi, I find this unbelievable with exception of certain extremely
> gifted contesters with awesome super stations we all know-  But on average
> in over-all contesting, for us little pistols running LP,  I would assume
> the weighted scores would favor stations east of the Mississippi. Both 
> from
> a geographic stand point, water table, and a standpoint of propagation,. 
> If
> the NAQP in the winter is one contest that might favor those of us west of
> the Mississippi, it is hard to feel bad for you guys   (-:
>
>
> 73!  Paul  N0AH
> Bill, Avid SWL'er in Seattle
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Richard F DiDonna NN3W
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 7:58 AM
> To: n2ic at arrl.net ; cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Suggestion for NAQP
>
> True Steve, but the August test is a very different animal from the 
> January
> test.
>
>>From January CW...One thing is clear.  You cannot win NAQP from east of 
>>the
> Mississippi in January...
>
> 2011 (claimed):
> KL9A
> N5KO/6
> N6MJ
>
> 2010:
> KL9A
> N5KO/6
> N6MJ
>
> 2009:
> KL9A
> N6MJ
> N5KO/6
>
> 2008:
> N6MJ
> N6RO
> N9RV/7
>
> 2007:
> N2NL/6
> KL9A
> N2IC/5
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve London" <n2icarrl at gmail.com>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Suggestion for NAQP
>
>
>> On 01/12/2011 07:05 AM, K1TTT wrote:
>>> But, but, but, that would change the whole nature of the contest. that
>>> would
>>> cause all the old records to be obsolete. that would change strategies.
>>> That might force some people to turn their antennas a bit.  That might
>>> change the perennial winners a bit.  that might make it more 
>>> interesting.
>>
>> Perennial winners ?
>>
>> Look at the top-5 in the August CW NAQP, that was just published in the
>> January/February NCJ. Compare that to the high-claimed scores in last
>> weekends'
>> NAQP. A very different list ! This is what makes the NAQP a great 
>> contest.
>>
>> 73,
>> Steve, N2IC
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