PS Despite not logging dupes, at a certain point, I have K1KA in my log twice for that contest. Which explains the second one. Wonder if he's related to K1KI.
-----------------------------------------From: "Rob Van Geen" To: w3...@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. ----------------------------------------- _________________ Searchable Archives: [1]http://www.contesting.com/_topband [2] - Topband Reflector Links: ------ [1] http://www.contesting.com/_topband [2] http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector