Normally in the CQ160CW contest there is a wall of NA signals across the band.
But this year I found many frequencies which appeared to be unoccupied.
I dropped onto a few of these, sent QRL several times and nobody responded. I
sat on some of these frequencies just listening and nobody appeared for minutes
at a time. Eventually somebody showed up, sent QRL and went to work. This
happend both Friday and Saturday nights all up and down the band.
Initially, I discovered these "holes" with the K3's bandwidth set at 100 hz but
then I opened it up to 150, 200, 250 and still nobody was there. I found that
a bit strange!
Was the number of NA participants down this year? Certainly the DX was out in
force as I heard some 60 DX entities in my S&P over a few hours having fun.
Anyone else notice a similar occurrence?
Bill VE3CSK
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