Ten years ago, in an high band SB effort during an ARRL DX, there was
no problem to nearly double the first day QSOs number during the second
one, generally there was not enough time along 48 hours to log everyone
that was active, even running 6 or 8 per minutes for hours and hours.
In recent years this was not any more possible, and the second day
brought an average of half QSOs than the first day.
During the last ARRL DX ssb, in an SB 15m I hardly reached one third of
the first day with QSO number, in sunday.
In other words, the second day was mainly a ?dupe contact day? with
horrible rates and always the good same signals calling me back.
So much poor that for a while I thought to give up with such a pain.
Although the first day had excellent conditions with propagation, the
second one was not bad at all, good enough that ten years ago with the
same propagation and equipment I could have logged double than it
happened this year, I?m absolutely sure about this.
My question is: with nowadays bad trends, so much time compared with so
little correspondants, is it still a matter of best operators, I mean
fast and accurate, or we are along the way to favour average ones with
best setups, locations or peculiar conditions ?
Wouldn't be one day a more appropriate period lenght to have fun, rates
and beneficial to pull out the best ops ?
73,
Mauri I4JMY
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