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How 40m performs for in-state propagation has a direct correlation to the sunspot cycle.  During a low sunspot cycle, 40m has poor propagation for in-state contacts and 80m is a much stronger performer.  Operators move to 80m much earlier in the contest during low sunspot cycle years.  As we approach the peak, 40m and 80m swap performance based on total number of in-state QSOs and we tend to move to 80m later in the contest.  This year we also had a solar storm to content with, so no doubt we will seem some impact on the stats for 2022.

 

We track this phenomenon in the results write-up.  You can find the chart in last year’s results write-up at https://www.warac.org/wqp/2021/results2021.pdf on page 2 of the document.

 

-73, Chuck  W9WLX

WIQP Team

 

From: WIQP-Mail [mailto:wiqp-mail-bounces at warac.org] On Behalf Of Joe via WIQP-Mail
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2022 12:33 PM
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Well anothers in the log.

Now is it just here or this year did 80 meters just suck!

I went out of my way to actually put up a 80 meter antenna so I can  get counties, and doo better than past years because of not being able to get on 80 meters.

40 meters and up is NOT good for an in state contest!

I kept checking 80, but geez there was like no activity till like the last two hours of the contest.
And even then it was pitiful.

40 was the QSO band by far! But this made it be I worked more states than counties!

RTTY.....  I was looking forward to do some RTTY this year, But I wonder if everyone was doing the same thing I did?

Go to the RTTY area and find no RTTY stations so go back to do more of what you were doing.

Maybe the old thing,,, if everyone is just listening and not transmitting,,,, well you know!

Spotting:

We can legally do it for all now.
CW it's automatic. Everyone gets spotted.

Phone? Not so much.

I think for the whole contest I was spotted on phone maybe twice.
And WOW! did it make a difference!!!

If you take total QSO's divide by air time I averaged 52 Q's a hour

I had the typical many many times of short runs of a rate of over 100/hr.

But when those spots hit, WOW the rate meter exploded I had two runs that exceeded 200/hr!!!!
Yes they were very short lived BUT Boy was that FUN!!!!

Now I wonder if you can make it an incentive to have people spot all their S&P contacts?

Actually I know in N1MM+ you can make it automatic. any time you make a S&P contact it automatically spots the station for you, you don't even have to do anything.

To make it an incentive say maybe if you turn this on in your logger you get an extra 100 bonus points or something?

Joe WB9SBD / W9ET 

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