I spent almost all of the second night of the ARRL 160 test, just running,
little to no S&P. This probably shows up in my final score as a high QSO count
but comparatively low mult count. I certainly didn't rack up the most
5-pointers of the east coast guys, either!
Interestingly... whenever I worked a DX station while running, sometimes even
before I successfully copied all of the DX's call, other folks would start
showing up on my run frequency trying to work, I guess, the DX. Often I worked
them even if they were dupes.
Sometimes the EU DX I worked seemed to come "in a streak" too. I don't have the
best station in the world and it's unusual for me to work 5 EU's in a row but
it happened on several occasions. This may have just been a couple of "good
condx to EU" highlights the second evening.
I'll be going to go back and look at reversebeacon and manual spots from those
nights, and see what correlations there might be.
Tim N3QE
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