The lack of DX can be explained by the propagation reports for Saturday and
Sunday. They were exceptionally poor.
Stan, K4SBZ
"Real radio bounces off the sky."
> On Jan 6, 2014, at 7:02 PM, "John Webster" <k1fwe@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> "The overall appearance of a lack of DX in the Roundup still amazes me. If
> this had been WPX or CQWW, 10 and 15 meters would have
> been wall-to-wall Europe starting here at 1300Z and probably going well past
> 2000Z with the high flux we had. That doesn't happen in
> Roundup. Or least that doesn't happen here during Roundup."Don - I agree.
> Personally, I think the rules/awards don't give DX much incentive to get into
> this one nor do they give US stations muchincentive to work DX, particularly
> on 80 and 10. I usually can't do much in this contest due to its proximity to
> the holidays, but that's just me. This year was no exception.JohnNN1SS (ex
> K1FWE)
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