Bob,

Interesting indeed and especially relevant to 222.  For many ops, if they are on 222 at all, it is on FM.

Johnny

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Lear
>Sent: Jul 4, 2016 5:21 PM
>To: FourLanders Contest Team
>Subject: [Fourlanders] FM/SSB contest analysis
>
>I have sent this message with a spreadsheet ATTACHED to the band
>captains and key operators for their perusal. An ATTACHMENT cannot be
>sent over the reflector. If anyone else wants to see this comparison,
>let me know and I'll forward the spreadsheet to you. Bob
>
>
>Way too hot to work outside! I've been working in the shack with
>various things.
>
>One thing is analyzing/comparing our June contest results here with
>those of Ryan KK4OSG who was only about 15 miles away from us on Blood
>Mountain operating FM only. He had pretty good results with 179 total
>Q's. He sent me his log and I thought it would be interesting to see
>how we compared and I was very surprised. Most of you know I haven't
>been very supportive of us doing FM as I really didn't think we'd make
>enough Q's to even make it worth setting up a station. Well, I stand
>corrected, at least for this contest from here in EM84. I still don't
>know how much difference it might make to us up on the mountain in EM85
>where we are even further from 'population' centers, if there are any
>even in Western NC, but maybe there is potential. Needless to say now,
>if we had been looking for FM Q's on 2, 222 and 432 when they were
>"dead" for us on CW/SSB, it could have made for some more decent numbers
>on those bands. We will certainly have to remember that in any future
>contest when 6m is wide open and the higher band activity is suffering.
>Very surprised that there are so many folks getting on for the contest
>on FM only. Of course, Ryan did spend time stirring them up and
>advertising. We'll have to get some pointers from him on what he did to
>shake 'em out"!
>
>We only did 6 FM Q's and 4 of those were with Ryan! Interesting that in
>3 local grids, we didn't work them at all and he had 5 Q's in the three
>grids. Hard to believe that we missed 3 multipliers in 3 local grids
>(grids no more than two away from 84).
>
>There are some interesting numbers to look at and I'll attach them in a
>spreadsheet as that will be an easier way to put them than here in
>text. A chart of Q's and a grid map of Q's.
>
>As you can easily see, there were quite a few FM only operators that we
>could have made contact with and increased our Q count on the higher
>bands. Not so much on 6 though. I really don't think it would make
>much difference to where we place in the contest, but you never know.
>Sometime we might actually be in a 'close' score situation. Usually we
>are all by ourselves!
>
>Comments?
>
>Thanks to Ryan KK4OSG for letting us look at his log for this.
>
>73, Bob
>
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