[CQ-Contest] Spring & NAQP

[Jim Brown]

On Mon,1/26/2015 12:59 PM, David Siddall wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> It isn't surprising that you failed to work every station that was on 
> in a contest -- I never have either!

Unlike most DC contesters, I enter most contests with a full bore 
effort. When I miss a mult like DC 2/3 of the time that it's a mult, and 
it's often the only US mult I miss, it tells me that few DC ops are 
serious contesters. But you still want to be a mult.

>
> Please go through your 110,000 QSOs again looking for some of the 
> other multipliers.  I suggest:
>
> North Korea
> Ethiopia
> Vatican
> Nepal
>
> Your argument is that we should limit multiplier status to entities 
> that consistently participate.

My position is that we should not be ADDING mult status for entities 
that don't support the contests where they are already multipliers. I 
work most major contests (except DX and 160 contests) with 1.5kW and a 
damned good antenna farm, including Beverages. If I'm missing DC 2/3 of 
the time, their activity does not even come close to justify adding DC 
as a mult.  Remember -- RTTY RU mults count once -- that tells me no one 
in DC was on the air in a serious way for RTTY RU in 2012 and 2014.

> Do you really think that this is the way to promote contest activity?

I think it's irrelevant to promoting contest activity.  I talked earlier 
about the difficulty of putting a decent station on the air in a major 
city like DC. And when you make a single city a multiplier, it benefits 
only those few guys who get on the air, and the close-in guys who can 
work them (because most have limited antenna farms, noise, etc.  If DC 
is to be a multiplier, why not Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, 
Seattle, Denver, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Chicago, 
Cleveland, Detroit, Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami, Boston, New York, 
Philadelphia?  I suspect that if we did the research, we would find most 
of those cities have comparable area and greater population.

73, Jim K9YC

>
> 73,  Dave
>
>
> p.s.  In fact, we met at a PVRC meeting in Maryland where you talked 
> about chokes.  You're certainly welcome any time.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com 
> <mailto:k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi David,
>
>     I just went through 8 years of logs, about 110,000 QSOs. K3VOA is
>     in my log once, for 2008 ARRL 10M. N8HM is in my log once -- 2014
>     WPX RTTY. W3HAC is in my log once, for SSB SS in 2014. W3DQ is in
>     my log five times. NN3RP shows up 10 times. KE3X is there for 32 Qs.
>
>     Looking at the last four years of contests where DC is a mult, I
>     worked DC in ARRL 10M in 2012 and 2014 (W1AW/3). I worked DC in
>     RTTY RU only in 2013. The last time I worked DC in CQ 160 was in
>     2011, when I worked W3DQ.  Bottom line -- in contests where DC
>     counts as a mult, I worked DC in only about one third of them in
>     the last four years.
>
>     To be fair, this does not include my W6BX and KU6W logs. I use
>     W6BX for split-site operation in SS, and KU6W for most WPX.
>
>     I know about the DC lunch meeting -- W3DQ brought me along when my
>     XYL and I were staying with him and his lovely XYL Jennifer for a
>     few days on our way home from a Baltimore wedding.
>
>     73, Jim K9YC
>
>     On Sat,1/24/2015 4:03 PM, David Siddall wrote:
>
>         W1AW/3 (@K3VOA), N8HM, W3HAC, KE3X,  W3DQ & NN3RP all were on
>         from D.C. in
>         the 2014 ten meter contest.  But you would have to know the
>         callsigns to
>         recognize which "MD" stations were located in D.C. for NAQP
>         because some
>         signed "MD" to prevent others having logging problems. PVRC
>         even holds a
>         monthly meeting in downtown D.C. to which anyone interested in
>         contesting
>         is welcome, including anyone on this reflector.
>
>         There's activity and interest in DC, notwithstanding that
>         after 9-11
>         security at government buildings has made access difficult or
>         impossible
>         for non-employees at some of the better club stations that
>         used to get on
>         regularly.  (I operated my first contest after college at
>         W3DOS in D.C.,
>         before being invited by K7UGA to join W3USS at the other end
>         of the Mall.)
>            73, Dave K3ZJ
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