[CQ-Contest] New Mult for SS

[Mike Smith VE9AA]

p.p.s- Any of you wondering about my facts I quoted below need not even take
my word for it. Not at all.

Please venture over to VOACAP online and punch in the #'s between VE9 and N.
W6 and see for yourself. https://www.voacap.com/hf/

 

Even for a very small 100w and vertical station, the various bands are very
well workable and wide open between here and N.California thusly:

 

23z-13z on 80m (14 hours) (579)

21z-15z on 40m (18 hrs) (579)

15z-24z on 20m ( 9 hours) (559)

17z-21z on 15m (4 hours.signals not quite as strong.529-539)

nuttin' on 10m is predicted

 

Signals of course are better for most average stns.  Above is practically
worst case scenario. (100w/vert)

 

Mike VE9AA "NB"

 

Mike, Coreen & Corey

Keswick Ridge, NB

 

From: Mike Smith VE9AA [mailto:ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca] 
Sent: January 5, 2020 11:38 AM
To: 'cq-contest at contesting.com'
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] New Mult for SS

 

I take strong issue with this particular statement you are purporting as
fact Jim.(the statement from your previous post which I clipped and pasted
below) 

 I just uploaded my 2019 logs to clublog.org a few hours ago.

It shows me as having 17.5K Q's this year alone (<100 Q's might be casual
and the rest are all contest.)

 

I am sure I have MANY HUNDREDS of Q's with California on ALL bands from 15m
thru 160m in 2019(I worked W6JTI and many other 6's just the other day on
160m). (probably many W6 10m Q's too, but I am not certain)

 

Even in the CQ-P from Nova Scotia, I operated portable as VE1TTT with just
100w and a mobile antenna on a picnic table and had no trouble at all
putting  100 California Q's in the log for 8 very casual hours of op time.
(40m/20m and 2Q's on 15m)

 

I routinely work 3 or 4 W6's in the Wednesday CWT's in 30minutes of
mobile-in-motion activity from a MINI COOPER (20m)..couldn't get much
smaller stn than that.

 

In the Thursday Ns Sprints, it's no trouble to work a few W6's on 20/40/80
with us all at @ the 100w level.

 

>From home I run big wire arrays on most bands and California is relatively
easy to work for many hours per day.  I am not the biggest stn up here
either.  Just avg on most bands and/or slightly above avg on the low bands.

 

I just don't think what you're reporting is accurate.  You keep repeating it
and it's just not fact.  We have personally worked many times (even with you
as QRP) so I don't know why you go on and on about us being so hard to work
up here.

 

As an aside, for an obviously very intelligent man presumably not being held
against his will in California, you seem to complain a lot about the East
Coast working Europe.  You could move if you were so inclined, or what I
would do if I was locked in W6. is I'd work tons more Asian/Oceania and
Domestic contests and try to excel at them instead of the CQWW's. or WAE

 

The NAQP's and Sprints are a good example of contests which are primarily
won by Western stations (the high bands stay open longer)..15m may not open
and I doubt 20m will be open for more than 1-2 hours next Sat. (It would do
me little good to complain to the sponsor about it). The 7QP and the Salmon
Run are slam dunks for Cal stns I would guess. HI-QP & I am sure there are
many more.

 

I wish you well in your contesting goals. (but maybe they shouldn't be to
compare your scores against W1's in CQWW/WAE)

p.s.-as far as SS..you only need work "us" on 1 band..not try to work us on
bands that are not open.

 

 

73 Mike VE9AA "NB"

 

 

k9yc:

".My statement was that for SS, my opportunity FROM NorCal for MAR VE mults
is largely limited to around my sunrise on 15M -- IF we have 15M
propagation. Obviously stations at all locations chose bands on the basis of
where they can hit the mults and make the best rates.."

 

Mike, Coreen & Corey

Keswick Ridge, NB