For an occational observer , who no longer has the stamina to work 48 hours
contests, there are too many people calling CQ and too few listening for
others. On a contest weekend there are CQ-stations all over the place, calling
without listening properly for whoever comes back ! One could get the
impression that the receiver gain was turned all the way down or they use so
narrow filters that unless a caller is within a few Hz of their passband( on
CW ), they loose the station.
This weekend 160 m is ruined by ssb contest. Here in Europe tha band was full
of stations calling CQ for long periods without a QSO ! What a waste of time
and spectrum, not to mention CW DX opportunities lost!
73
Rag Otterstad LA5HE also JW5HE OZ8RO
located in Telemark - home of skiing.
My antenna "farm" can be found on HTTP://no.photos.yahoo.com/la5he when you
click on Radio.
Take a look at: http://WWW.visitTelemark.com
or http://www.visitnorway.com
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