It's well known that european HAMs did learn time tables and then wait until
Radio Tirana stopped tranmitting on 40m band to hurry there and have
incredible DXes on that channels.
73,
Mauri I4JMY
PS May be better to look at today's date
----- Original Message -----
From: <K3BU@aol.com>
To: <kg2au@stny.rr.com>
Cc: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 2:23 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] I can feel the heat! Fwoosh!
>
> In a message dated 3/31/2001 17:46:29 Eastern Standard Time,
> kg2au@stny.rr.com writes:
>
> > I've heard these allegations before and there is something I've
> > always wondered about:
> >
> > Even if some kind of illegal high power transmitter was used to
> > achieve signals that were 40 or 30 or however many dB louder than
> > anyone else, they still had to HEAR all the stations they worked.
> >
> > I'd like to know how they managed to hear so many stations. Were they
> > somehow cheating on the receive side also?
> >
> > Jimmy
>
>
> Hi Jimmy,
> it works like this:
> he sat whole contest on 1840, didn't move for a second. He actually had
> "chaser" going around and telling him about some multipliers right on
> frequency (multi op ?). Then when you sit on one frequency whole contest,
you
> blast it clear, especially with high power, no one comes close and you
have
> clear channel for receiving and you can hear better than other slobs that
> have to fight QRM. There is another phenomena, it appears that frequency
can
> be conditioned by constant transmitting, and propagation enhanced. Kind of
> ionospheric heating. I have seen that many times, After the contest I
would
> have QSO with OK2RZ we talk for about half an hour, and then band dies.
> That's how he "cheated" on receive. It helps tremendously. Beverages close
to
> the ocean really work too.
>
> 73 Yuri
>
>
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