[NCC] NAQP CW Teams Thursday Update

[Scott]

Hal

Because of the snow the XYL has decided to stay home this weekend. So I will

commit to part time so as to make time for her dinner plans with friends
Sat. night.

73...Scott kk8d

-----Original Message-----
From: NCC [mailto:ncc-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Hal Offutt
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 7:12 PM
To: North Coast Contesters; Mad River Radio Club
Subject: [NCC] NAQP CW Teams Thursday Update


Greetings,

So far I have 23 ops planning to operate full or part time.  See below.  
Again, if I have you in the wrong category or missed you completely, let me
know.  We still need another 5-10 ops to equal previous participation
levels.  Please respond by late Friday night.  I will register the teams and
post the list of teams here.

If KW8N will be on full time (how about it , Bob?), it looks like we have 13
full timers, so we need at least two more to fill out our third FT team.  If
Bob can't make it, we will need three more.  If no others show up, I will
move some PT ops to the third team.

The ncjweb.com website contains past results, records and lots of good
information.  Take a look.  It's very well done.  Here is a list of record
holders from our part of the country:

January NAQP CW Records

OH  N8AA  209,898   2013
MI   W8MJ  236,410  2003
NY  K2TJ    281,637  2012
PA  AA3B  358,308  2013
IN  N9RV  367,812  2003

August NAQP CW Records

OH  W1NN 170,649  2014
MI  NA8V  160,993  2012
NY  K2TJ    196,418  2011
PA  AA3B  282,741  2014
IN  W9RE  258,279  2014

Note that six out of the above 10 records are held by members of either NCC
or MRRC (and one by a former member).  In addition, several of our members
(NO3M, K8MR, etc.) are just a hair behind the leaders.  
Unfortunately for our team efforts, K2TJ, N2ZN, NW2K and W2GN will be
operating at the W2FU M/M, so some of our best ops will not be available.
But W2FU holds the record in this event and we want to see them continue
occupying this position.  They should be pretty easy to work on six bands.

Last January, we fielded six teams and our best team placed 18th out of 
90 teams.   Unfortunately, a couple those team members were not able to 
operate full time.  This year we should be able to put together at least two
teams with full-time ops, so we should be able to do much better.  
As you can see from the above data, January scores are a lot higher, but
conditions seem to favor the West Coast and in this part of the country we
do not do as well relatively as we do in the August NAQP.

As to strategy, the following breakdowns from the winning W2FU team provides
a good hint as to band strategy:

160  255/49
80    537/60
40    483/65
20    406/62
15    352/60
10   195/46

The W2FU team ended up with 2,228 contacts!  Half a dozen single ops were
over 1400 contacts, but they were mostly on the west coast.

Full time Ops

NA8V
ND8L
N8SS
N8AA
AF8A
W1NN
KT8K
KK8D
K8FZY
N3SD
KD8GOX
KW8N (tentative)
WW3S


Part Time ops

K8BL
N8EA
K8MR
K8ND
K6RQT
W8RU
K8NZ
AC8E
N8XX
K9NW

73,

Hal W1NN
NAQP Whip
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