[CQ-Contest] NAQP Rules

[KB3LIX at comcast.net]

Frankly Scarlet
Who cares about winning ?
I certainly don't.
The idea is to get on the air and have fun and see
what you can do with whatever you have.

Compete against your self.

Last year, I had 40,000 points, this year I got 42,880.
I beat my last years score.

I'm in the same boat as you.
100 watts and a wire doublet (homemade) and a 4BTV.
NAQP this year, I used the doublet almost exclusively.

Guys like us anr NEVER going to win big, so what ?

I enjoyed beating my last years score.  

bill   KB3LIX

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Clarke" <ku8e at bellsouth.net>
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 4:58:24 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] NAQP Rules

Am I the only one who has a big letdown when I check the 3830 scores and see how badly I get beaten? I don’t know who figured out that someone like myself who is running wire antennas (or someone with wires/tribander beam) can be compared evenly to someone with a big station with multiple monoband beams on towers just because we are both running 100 watts. That’s silly. Those big stations would still probably beat me even if I ran a KW.  And it’s not because I’m a poor operator.

Here are some ideas :

1) Have both a SO2R class and a classic category (one radio) like they have in CQWW .
2) Add a tribander/wires category
3) High and low power classes
4) Add an assisted category
5) Divide the US into regions and have top ten boxes for each of them. The way conditions were yesterday the west coast had even more of an advantage then they usually do because 15 and 10 meters were both open pretty good.

Don’t take this email the wrong way (as complaining) because I love NAQP CW and the activity yesterday was great. It’s just a pretty stale contest because the same 3 or 4 stations win every year for a long as I can remember. Plus I would love to compete against someone who has a station more equal to mine.

Jeff KU8E

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