A note on this from a 76 year old that has been licensed since 1954. I have a
dream station...on a hill...isolated...except for some bad power line noise
that popped up during the ARRL Phone. Simple set up, but I almost always can
crack a pile first or second call and this is from Kansas. I often get a
comment on my signal strength and occasionally a question about the band being
open to zero land yet.
But when I try to run I get a pile of S3 JA's or Eu stations and I get
frustrated that I can't sort them out. Same happened when I had an hour on
Ducie a year or so before the last big DXpedeiton. My then rig RX just
collapsed as did my nerves and I only worked a hundred or so contacts before I
had to leave. (Story on that was in World Radio August 2007).
So I'm happy to work the contests on the high bands S&P with some help from
DXSummit. 300 hundred or so contacts to far away places and I usually run out
of guys calling CQ. But each contact is a thrill, especially when I beat out
K3LR or such in a pile.
So message is: Each contest has it's own identity and not all of us are trying
for first. These are contests, but to some a great activity weekend. Not much
of a message, but rave on.....
N0UU
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