[CQ-Contest] CQ WW DX SSB Midwest vs East Coast

[Trent Sampson]

To have a look at some hypotheticals - Have a look at the Reverse Beacon Network on http://www.reversebeacon.net/analysis/

I did a comparison between the top three Zone 5 Stations in the CQWW 2020 and the variation in Signal strengths is significant - Posted to my Facebook page to share the data images

https://www.facebook.com/VK4TS/

Some very interesting information is hidden in the analysis tool - obviously you would have to compare to logs to then work out what each station was doing but there is significant signal strength differences between stations just in Zone 5 

 73 

Trent VK4TS (WW7TT) 



-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+vk4ts=outlook.com at contesting.com> On Behalf Of David Gilbert
Sent: Thursday, 11 November 2021 6:46 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW DX SSB Midwest vs East Coast



Depending upon the band and the quirks of propagation, 200 miles can indeed be significant.   I live about 200 miles south-southeast of Phoenix, Arizona where the bulk of the membership of the contest club to which I belong (AOCC) lives.  I have often noticed that I can work Europeans that they can't and vice versa.  Sometimes the difference is very pronounced.  I'm not saying that those differences hold throughout a contest, but at any point in time they certainly can.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 11/10/2021 11:59 PM, Richard F DiDonna NN3W wrote:
> The distance from OM2VL to 9A1P is about 215 miles. If your contention 
> is that those two locations are not comparable, then -no- QTHs are 
> comparable
> - ever.  OM2VLs QTH is also 265 miles from DL2ARD who beat both OM2VL 
> and 9A1P.  Are we to consider DL2ARD's QTH to be distinct as well?
>
> 215 miles is the distance between Washington DC and New York or 
> Washington DC and Raleigh.  I certainly would consider them to be more 
> or less in the same area.
>
> 73 Rich NN3W

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