At 07:42 AM 12/10/05, Steve Ireland wrote:
>I figure the CQ WW CW these days is only good for a station as remotely
>situated from the rest of the world as VK6 to 'search and pounce' as one
>simply gets stamped on when CQing.
Only S&P'ing greatly reduces the number of stations who can work you. Single
ops and Multi-singles can't afford to sit on 160 and CQ very long, if at all.
But they will listen briefly at peak periods (such as sunrise). So I would
encourage remote DX stations such as VK/ZL to park somewhere and CQ -- they
will find you, even under big local signals.
>The CQ 160 is pretty much the same game - the DX window in both the CQ WW
>and CQ 160 are hopelessly full of big US and European stations and
>pipsqueaks like me that are more than seven or eight thousand kilometres
>away from NA/US just get trampled on when they CQ.
Once the sun is up in Europe the "DX Window" here on the East Coast gets pretty
vacant but for a couple of Caribbean stations making intra-continental contacts
(contrary to the rules). Maybe a KH6 or two, and an occasional stateside
intruder. But usually plenty of room for a VK or ZL to have a clear spot to CQ,
through our sunrise. By all means use split frequency though so you don't get
trampled on by the pileup. Do the same in ARRL 160.
>With regard to the ARRL 160, from the point of both of the increasing
>inability of stations outside the northern hemisphere to raise anyone in
>the contest and the emails that say that this is really a US domestic
>contest anyway, I won't waste any more time on operating in this one.
My goal in this contest is to work as many 5-pointers as possible. It's the DX
that is key to a winning score, both in points and multipliers, and what makes
it more interesting than just a domestic sweepstakes. I had more than 160 DX
contacts this year -- so it's hardly just a domestic contest.
73/Jon AA1K
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