[WIQPmail] N9SD mobile for 2021 WQP

[Scott Dawley]

Well, that was supposed to go to wo9b. Stupid technology!!! ;-) 

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> On Feb 26, 2021, at 8:28 AM, Scott Dawley <sdawley999 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I think you're the first in this year.
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> Trying to stake my claim...heh heh heh...
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> Still working on band strategy, reviewing RBN data from NE9U and others from the last couple of years. They hop around between 20, 40 and 80 early with the vast majority of time on 20 and 40, then after around 2200 everyone switches to 40 and 80 exclusively.
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> We will only have two antennas out at any one time, then midway thru the contest we‘ll swap out the 20m hamstick for the 80m hamstick. Not ideal as we will miss some of the early 80m activity.
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> So I’m trying to figure out the balance of how long to stay on 20. But I need those state mults. The results from the last few years all so the majority of mults being states. So I gotta pick those up and 20 and 40 early.
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> And VOACAP is showing 40 staying short throughout the first 6 hours of the contest period, so I think this might be the first year in the last 3 or 4 when 40 once again becomes the dominant band, or at least closer to 80.
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> Fun, fun, fun!!!
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>> On Feb 26, 2021, at 8:21 AM, Michael Johnson <mike at palomonet.com> wrote:
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>> I think you're the first in this year.