[CQ-Contest] Contest QTH, hilltop or seaside?

Thu Jan 1 22:46:13 EST 2015

Is there an argument to be made for favoring plain vanilla flat land in all directions, instead of a hill or mountaintop, so that the TOA's can be optimized for all bands by antenna height/stacking for all important directions? 

Best regards,
Scott w3tx

On Jan 1, 2015, at 8:25 PM, "Ed Sawyer" <sawyered at earthlink.net> wrote:

Go with the hilltop.  The oceanfront is great if you have unobstructed low
angle in a few favored directions.  But oceanfront with low angles cut off
is not a good compromise.

Spend A LOT of time with HFTA after carefully detailing the terrain within
1000ft of the antennas.  My best antennas are all 25 - 30 ft to Europe off
the side of my hill to Europe.

Ed  N1UR

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