I have noticed during our past couple PJ4A CQWW CW operations the pileups have
seemed to get so unruly that we sometimes had to listen split to keep up the
rate. I remember last year one particular EU pileup on 10 meters that so many
stations were calling zero beat on the same frequency that the CW signals mixed
together and the pileup sounded like a steady tone. My guess is many of those
stations were pointing a clicking on spots on the cluster . I consider myself
to be a decent CW operator and ended up trying to listen on the outer edge of
the pileup to pickup calls but that didn’t help much. Eventually I had to
resort to listen 2 UP and that helped a great deal. I could see some rare
station with a marginal signal maybe giving up in frustration on a pileup
because of people calling continuously without listening.
Jeff KU8E
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