It was very nice to hear you running on 10 and 15. A great way to see how
to carry on dual running. Good experience!
Unfortunately, I have some minor problems and I think I won't be able to do
SO2R. Let's see what happens at the end of my working day around 21UTC.
See you all,
Seba
LW3DC - LV6D SOAB Low power
2014-09-25 20:17 GMT-03:00 Ed Muns <ed@w0yk.com>:
> As Scott K0DQ says, "The first casulty of battle (or a contest) is the
> plan." My plan in the 2200-2230z practice was to start on 10/15, go to
> 20/15 after ten minutes and them 20/40 the last 10 minutes. Even with
> these
> supposedly punk conditions, there were immediate pile-ups of JAs (and US)
> on
> both bands that I couldn't break away from. The JAs were weak, but
> printable. A few Europeans called in, late in the evening for them on the
> high bands.
>
> Very few stations realized a practice was going on and it was hard to get
> zones and QTHs from most of them. OTOH, no one I worked questioned my
> sending a zone in the exchange. Got quite a few ITU zones, carry over from
> IARU/WRTC I suppose.
>
> Moral for all of us is to be flexible and let propagation and activity
> determine where to operate.
>
> Ed W0YK
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Ed W0YK wrote:
>
> Thursday, 25 September, 2200-2230z
> Friday, 26 September, 0330-0400z
>
> Follow CQ WW RTTY Contest Rules on whatever bands are open for you
> (80-10m).
>
> Try out your hardware, software, messages, operating, etc. before the big
> weekend event!
>
>
>
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