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Re: Topband: ARRL 160 Test - barren of DX

To: "'Rob Van Geen'" <rvangeen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL 160 Test - barren of DX
From: W3HKK@roadrunner.com
Reply-to: W3HKK@roadrunner.com
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 01:47:44 +0000
List-post: <mailto:topband@contesting.com>
Glad I was "almost" spotted. Saw quite a few erroneous spots in the
contest due to the less than stellar conditions, myself.

I see we havent worked yet this year....time is running out but the
10M this weekend is a good place to remedy that.

Bob

        -----------------------------------------From: "Rob Van Geen" 
To: W3HKK@roadrunner.com
Cc: "topband@contesting.com"
Sent: Tuesday December 5 2023 8:31:55PM
Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL 160 Test - barren of DX

 You were spotted to DX cluster as "W3SKK" Saturday:

                 Spotter
                 Freq.
                 DX
                 Time
                 Info
                 Country

                  K1KA 
                  1806 
                  W3SKK 
                 22:21 02 Dec 23 

                 United States 

 This could explain the high dupe rate. 
 tskk, tskk, tskk 
 Rob - NH6V 

 On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 11:15 AM  wrote:
  Tnx for the qso, Jim.

 I worked a mere six CA stations, fewer than half of the 7 land
states,
 one KH6. and a smattering of Carib/C.A. stations. Several locals gave
 up early Fri night due to the poor/few signals ota.
 I started at 2200z prompt and worked a so-so 109 stations during the
 first 80 minutes. XYL announced dinner so I took an hour break, came
 back and saw the rates declining -instead of increasing- and holes
 appearing in the bandscope. Not many blockbuster sigs either, with
 moderate QRN,

 Day 2 began with a bang...45% of my contacts were DUPES...until I
 decided to check for the N1MM+ DUPE alert before gong back to the
guy.
 Id give his call, then say SRI-DUPE-and resume CQing. Miraculously
 after a while the dupes went way down. (perhaps the friendly reminder
 changed some behavior.) ( rather than just working them and letting
 the software sort it out.) But spending half your time on dupes
seemed
 ridiculous.

 Also during both nights I heard only two Euros. But s they wee
 replying to someone elses CQ I never had a chance to call them. So
 zero Euros in the 2023 log. I reflected back to 2020 when 160 was
wide
 open to EU and it was great fun working them right and left.

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