Why can't you call CQ there to make intercontinenal qsos ? I hear N7DD, K6SE
and others out west call CQ there every 160 contest. Are you only allowed to
call CQ there if you are a W1 , W6 or W7 ???? Just another examaple of a
"bad" rule.. Thet should just keep that window open for DX like it always was
in the past....
Jeff
>
> From: John Laney <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
> Date: 2004/12/03 Fri AM 09:58:07 EST
> CC: SECC <secc@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [SECC] 160M Contest
>
> On CW, the only DX window is 1830 to 1835, supposedly reserved for
> intercontinental QSOs. I would not call CQ in that window. I would not
> answer any US station in that window unless it is in the middle of the
> day and no DX could be worked by anyone who could hear you. I do answer
> other North and Central American and Caribbean DX stations if they are
> working in the window and listening simplex. You really don't have
> control of that situation. W8JI might disagree and the strictest
> interpretation would be not to answer any NA station in the window
> thereby forcing them to move for contacts in NA or to listen split.
>
> CW stations will be QRV from 1800 to as high in the band as your antenna
> will load probably. I'd avoid frequencies used by SSB stations as a
> courtesy to them.
>
> 73,
>
>
> John, K4BAI.
>
> P.S. My recollection is that the contest does not enforce any DX window
> or bandplan, so courtesy is what we are talking about, not disqualification.
>
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