Hi Ian
Well what gives ME a buzz is EVERY DX contact on Top Band, i.e. any station more than a couple of thousand miles away . . . it doesn't bother me how many times I have worked that station before. And it doesn't bother me whether they are in a big country or on a tiny island. It's the fact I'm doing things the hard way, having long distance contacts on a frequency that isn't really designed for it. It's been my main interest in this hobby for the past 50 years ! If I come on Top Band during a Contest, I only want to spend a couple of hours on the band, so am just looking to try and work as many DX stations in that time as possible . . . I don't want to waste time working hundreds of Europeans that I could work any time! So that's why I wouldn't put out a CQ call. 73 Roger G3YRO -----Original Message----- Roger I think that Mike makes a very good case. A good number of us who enjoy topband do not tend to use it for working the same stations over and over again and definitely not for ragchewing. I enjoy a good CW ragchew, but would not consider 160m for such a QSO. I know that I could come on 160m on Wednesday evenings. But I have worked over 1000 different US stations on 160m over the years. My main interest in 160m these days is in working new DXCC and contesting. Incidentally, in one of your posts, you said that you did not call CQ in the recent Stew Perry for fear (sic) of being called by loads of EU stations. That struck me as being rather selective about the type of activity that you are prepared to tolerate in your log. Just saying... 73, Ian G4iiY _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector