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

[Stan Stockton]

Maybe....if money is no object.  A winning setup could be had with the right location and two or three 60 foot towers. That won't happen on flat land.

Stan, K5GO

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> On Jan 1, 2015, at 9:46 PM, ScottW3TX at verizon.net <scottw3tx at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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