Topband: Stew Perry

[Tom Rauch]

Hi Milt,

This is a subjective debate, rather than a scientific one, so this will 
be my last comment. How this is viewed depends on one's point of 
view. 

My viewpoint was one of frustration because I was not able to give 
many Europeans (and even a VQ9 and 4X4) and perhaps a dozen 
JA's a contact.

I feel for the poor fellow who has to dig all those weak signals out of 
the noise. The station working the QRP stations deserves just as 
many points as those who are running QRP and subjecting him to 
the misery of hearing their signal!

You posted:

> >From the 1999 Top Ten I note 10% HP, 30% LP, & 60% QRP.  
Top score was
> >3,726
> by a VK6VZ, HP.
> >From the 1998 Top Ten I note 30% HP, 30% LP, & 40% QRP.  
Top score was
> >3,836
> by K1ZM, QRP.
> >From the 1997 Top Ten I note 60% HP, 30% LP, & 10% QRP.  
Top score was
> >4,751
> by GM3POI, HP.  K1ZM, QRP was #6.
> >From the 1996 Top Ten I note 40% HP, 40% LP, & 20% QRP.  
Top score was
> >3,485
> by GM3POI, HP.  K1ZM, QRP was #10.

What I see in those figures is:

1.) The number of high power top-tens are steadily dropping

2.) The number of low powers are staying about the same

3.) The number of QRP's are going up greatly

It appears people started learning about the QRP advantage the 
second year of the contest. If enough stations move to QRP, the 
ability of stations in areas with a low population of 160 meter op's 
to make QSO's will decline.


73, Tom W8JI
w8ji@contesting.com


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