Both you and Gator, N5RZ, have said the same thing. So I will accept the
fact that it is possible with high demand when people can keep moving to
high-rate bands.
73, Jim
>Jim George, N3BB writes:
>>
>
>>200-300 QSOs an hour with a single run station. Having having operated
>>with K1DG (a great operator) on 15 meters SSB at PJ9B this past October in
>>the CQWW, we achieved about 105 QSOs an hour *average* over 48 hours from
>>one of the best contest locations in the world. There are slow periods.
>>But we were on one band. If we could have moved to where the QSO rates
>>were always at a maximum, what would our QSO rate have been? Is it
>>realistic to hit 200 QSOs an hour over 24 hours with (primarily) a single
>>transmitter from Cyprus?
>
>I have never been to Cyprus but I have make 4500 qsos in 24 hours
>from Honduras as a single op at the dead bottom of the
>solar cycle.
>
>And as I recall N6KT made 10,000 qsos in 48 hours with a bit
>more than half coming in the first 24 hours.
>
>So I would say that it is possible to average 200/hr for 24 hours.
>
>
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