> On Saturday night I took some time out from CQing to slowly tune the whole
> band in search-and-pounce mode, bottom to top, a number of times. I was using
> my FT1000MP, with the Inrad roofing filter, and the pair of 250 hz Inrad IF
> filters were switched in. The phased Beverages were toward Europe, of course,
> and I was looking to add as many 10-pointers as possible. Every turn of the
> dial found another DX station wedged in tightly between -- or directly under
> -- some USA station calling CQ, oblivious to the DX beneath. A quick call, a
> reply from the DX and I'd be tuning the dial up for the next one with the
> stateside station wondering what was going on. Many of the stateside stations
> thought I must be calling them, and sent me a report. Usually these were
> dupes anyway, but in a few cases they were new calls so I was able to
> simultaneously log both stations -- DX and stateside. This went on all the
> way up to 1890 kHz or a bit higher. If I couldn't work the DX with a call or
> two,
i
I have to share this story... back in the 1990 CQ 160, I found myself in
Texas at the QTH of N5KO / WN4KKN. We had a spotlight European opening
(putting about 50 of them in the log) and we worked Europe right over AA1K
who was evidently not in the spotlight.
:-)
Tree N6TR
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