Or would looking at the DX cluster right before the
contest (but not during the contest) to see where
certain stations are being spotted put me in the
Unlimited category?
73s John NE0P
--- K0HB <k-zero-hb@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> >> In the final hour I tune all the open bands and
> populate
> >> my bandmap with all the rare-mult stations who
> are
> >> 'holding a spot' for the opening bell, and in the
> first
> >> 15 minutes or so of the contest I work that
> bandmap...
>
> N2IC responds:
>
> > However, ethically, this is as inappropriate as
> listening during an
> > off-time.
>
> Interesting notion (I disagree, but it's still
> interesting).
>
> Let's take this a step further then.
>
> B4 the SS phone weekend I populate a "mental
> bandmap" with the Sunday
> QTR/QRG of several state traffic nets
> (WY/KS/ND/MT/DE) so that if these
> mults are absent from my log at noon Sunday, I
> possibly snag a cooperative
> traffic-handler to fill a hole in my sweep. In
> other words, I go into the
> contest knowing where a certain mult is likely
> available. How is this
> conceptually different than building a bandmap of
> the "placeholders with
> desireable mults" in the hour preceeding the opening
> bell?
>
> N1ND, what sayest thou?
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
> ---
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>
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