Might be. I've already received 4 stateside requests. All 4 answered.
If folks want bang for their stateside QSO buck, they should try sweeps which
is all stateside (plus Canada and the islands), all the time.
I worked basically all of them, although some that I worked were put to the
back of the line until I could be certain that all the DX stations were worked.
In other cases, they were much louder than DX stations and I knew that I would
have to work the stateside station to work the DX station (assuming the DX
station didn't QSY).
73 Rich NN3W
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dick Pechie" <kb1h@ct.metrocast.net>
To: <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>; "Richard DiDonna NN3W" <nn3w@cox.net>
Cc: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Domestic stations in CQWW
>I have already received 2 stateside QSL request via direct mail for CT or
> even Windham county. I believe Jim has some validity to his theory that
> stateside stations are looking to confirm states, counties, etc.
>
> Dick - KB1H M/M in CQWW
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
> To: "Richard DiDonna NN3W" <nn3w@cox.net>
> Cc: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Domestic stations in CQWW
>
>
> --- Richard DiDonna NN3W <nn3w@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Did anyone else besides him and I notice a marked increase in the number
> of
>> W/K stations answering domestic CQs this past weekend? My stateside QSO
>> count went from 152 in 2006 to 231 in 2007. And that 231 number is the
>> result of the fact that around 1900z I changed my CQ loop message to "CQ
>> countest outside of the United States?"
>
> Just a theory...
>
> When did ARRL add the WAS award to LoTW? Was it this year?
>
> Contesters can be good electronic QSLers. Maybe people are taking advantage
> of
> this as a short cut to ragchews and collecting cards for their WAS award.
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
>
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