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....@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 <tsho...@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 > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband