After CQ WW CW, I was talking with a guy in Arizona who had worked 100+ JA's on
160 in that test! More than half a continent away, very different perspective
on 160 than mine!
Tim N3QE
-----Original Message-----
From: Ashton Lee [mailto:Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 10:12 AM
To: Shoppa, Tim
Cc: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL 160 contest observation
Come out to Colorado and you won't have the problem of mass European pile ups.
On Dec 11, 2013, at 8:03 AM, Shoppa, Tim <tshoppa@wmata.com> wrote:
> 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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