[TowerTalk] w1gkk & big arrays

[Peter Forbes]

Tom's comments.

> People really only compete against themselves or other similar stations in 
> the
> same region. I'm not impressed when someone 50% closer to DX
> stations with a 75% saltwater path does better than an
> inland station with twice the distance and a path 75% over
> land.
>
> 73 Tom
>

I couldn't agree more.

Just one example, which might make some of you northerners take note.

The ARRL Challenge Award, you would think is a fair measure of station 
performance across all the HF bands.

Consider these facts:

The top score is 3089.

The highest score by a station in the Southern Hemisphere is 2287   (YV1DIG) 
and that ranks him at number  201.

Then follows LU2NI at 2275 (rank 207),  ZS6EZ at 2221 (rank 224),  VK3QI 
2058 (rank 292),  VK9NS  2047 (rank 302) and PY2SP 2032 (rank 307).

In other words only 6 out of the first 307 stations are in the Southern 
Hemisphere.

Even allowing for discrepencies in ham populations, clearly there is a 
disadvantage to Southern Hemisphere stations, especially on 160mx and 6 mx, 
which no "super antennas" etc. would fix..

The DXCC mixed, CW and phone are even more enlightening.


Cheers

Peter   VK3QI







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