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Subject: 15m impressions
From: alan@dsd.es.com (Alan Brubaker)
Date: Tue Feb 23 07:38:34 1993
Interesting comments, Eric. Congrats on a fine score. 

After looking at the scores posted this morning by Dave, I would say that most 
of 
us out here in the west are humbled by the megascores you guys in the east 
enjoy. 

There is no doubt in my mind that the activity level in JA continues to decline 
on 
HF. I have been operating in the DX contests since the early '60s and it seems 
that 
each year there is less and less activity out of the far east - particularly on 
CW. 
Thank goodness there are always the perennial club stations for all of us to 
work 
on all the bands, but I believe that the JAs and hams in the other countries 
over 
there too are plagued by the same problems that we have here - having to live 
in an 
apartment where you cannot have an effective HF antenna system, RFI problems, 
and 
so on. 

Does anyone think that the DX contest should be shortened again? (It used to be 
a
week or two long, then 96 hours, and now 48). I listened around quite a bit on 
Sunday, and many of the big stations were calling CQ after CQ with no takers. 
If we
have to start paying extra for every KWH that we use, those unanswered CQs 
could 
start getting expensive .... ..

Alan

alan@dsd.es.com

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