Hi Bob. I didn't mean to say that anyone here could stand a chance against the
west coasters doing a run of JAs in a contest. In a contest, I'm happy to get
one JA station on each of the low bands for the multiplier :) As you know, EU
is the bread and butter on the east coast when it comes to racking up the
points.
I was talking more about DXing than contesting. He was referring to seeing the
cluster spots of Asian stations in the morning hours. I was under the
impression he was interested in working DX, not running JA stations in a
contest.
When it comes to hunting down that rare DX, the fact that you have 8 to 10
hours of short-path openings to Asia every night is exactly why I said what I
did! Here on the east coast we need to take advantage of those long-path 40m
openings at 5:30pm in December. You won't be in the 40m pileup at 2:30pm local
time. Sure, we can work them at sunrise also, but at that time we'll be
competing with the west coast stations.
Tom, NI1N
----- Original Message -----
From: BobK8IA@aol.com
To: tom@klient.com ; towertalk@contesting.com
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 40 meters
In a message dated 3/17/05 10:12:44 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
tom@klient.com writes:
I've never operated from MI so I'm not familiar with the propogation there.
But, from here in southwest Virginia, my best shot to southeast Asia is
often on the long path, particularly around December, where our dusk is in
synch with their dawn.
I can work into that area during our dawn as well, but the west coast
stations often still have a better shot at them than I do. Using the long
path at our dusk, it is still 3 hours before the west coast sunset... they
won't be competing in the 40m pileups.
Tom;
Respectfully, there is no way you an touch the west coast guys into JA/SE
Asia on 40m. Here in AZ, we dont need to rely on the afternoon long path to be
in those pileups. Why? Because we have 8 to 10 hrs of JA short path openings
every night. During CQWW CW last fall I worked almost 900 q's on 40m and 460 of
them were JA's. I dont think you'll be doing that JA volume from W1-land,
hi.Its our bread and butter here, as far as contest volume goes.
OTOH, Eu runs here are not anything like you experience. I've operated both
coasts and in the middle. Location, location.
73, Bob K8IA
nr The Superstition Mtns
Arizona, USA
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