On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:39:21 -0700 (PDT), Julius Fazekas wrote:
>I personally have called you and other West Coast stations
>mentioned repeatedly without so much as a dittydahdahditty in
>various contests
You're in my log seven times on Top Band from my CA QTH, and at
least 75% of the time, I'm listening on a NE Beverage. The exception
is late at night and early AM when I'm working the Pacific. And even
then, W3DQ managed to come through loud and clear to work me in the
middle of a JA run.
Yes, the west coast has a distinct advantage in working into the
Pacific -- JA, VK, ZL, and so on. There are sometimes a lot of JAs
to work -- I think I've worked as many as 70 or 80 in a 160 contest
-- but only one multiplier, and there are not very many stations on
topband in other countries. An equal number of EU/AF Qs would yield
at least two dozen mults. There are a LOT more country multipliers
in Europe and Africa, and there are a LOT more active hams than in
the Pacific Rim. You're also a lot closer to the Carribean, which is
another cluster of multipliers, but thanks to QRN, it can take a lot
more signal to get through to them.
73,
Jim K9YC
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