[UK-CONTEST] Fwd: 3rd Jan 80m CC [CW]

[Andy Summers]

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From: Andy Summers <g4kno.mail at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 3rd Jan 80m CC [CW]
To: g3wvg at btinternet.com


How cool is that! I never bothered to look at RBN before.

Out of interest, I sorted the claimed entries by QSO count and picked a few
to compare with myself at various nodes. What's strking is there isn't a
massive difference between my signal and some of the leaders. But more
revealing is that G3ZGC's QRP is indeed consistently weaker than my signal
and yet he is in 38th place to my 127th! In fact he beats a significant
number of stations running 100W - well done! OK, I'm no CW op, but this does
suggest the skill factor is a bigger factor than I had assumed.

Of course, there isn't really any data from nodes in G-land, so it's
impossible to see whether some enjoyed better inter-G propagation than
others - which makes up the meat of the available Q's. I was interested to
see that I was heard by K3LR near the start of the contest at the same SNR
as G4FNL, who is currently in 1st place.

This is all quite encouraging to me because I had assumed it was a
pipe-dream to think I could get anywhere near the top of the table with my
station (currently 100W to inverted-vee windom, 30ft apex 10ft ends). A long
way to go with the skill then... I recall reading something G6XN wrote where
he reckoned those with beams did better partly because they expected to get
through to DX, whereas those that didn't gave up too easily.

73,
Andy G4KNO.


On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Ian Pritchard <g3wvg at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hello All
>
> Interesting conditions throughout the 80m CC.  I had expected the band to
> be pretty poor for inter UK QSOs throughout the contest but for me (in
> Surrey ) it improved dramatically in the last 45 mins or so.   Today I did a
> search on the "reverse beacon network comparison tool"  comparing signal
> strengths of various  high scoring stations (posted on logs received) as
> received throughout the 90 minutes at various reception points around
> Europe.  Fascinating stuff.  It would be very interesting to see what
> antennas everyone was using.   Most of the stations had comparable patterns
> of signal strengths but  there were some anomalous results. with a very
> small number of stations exhibiting as much as a 10db advantage over others.
>
> Check it out at    http://www.reversebeacon.net/analysis/
>
> 73 Ian G3WVG
>
>
>
>
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