On Sat, 29 Nov 1997 15:39:45 -0500 (EST) Patrick Collins
<pcollins@freenet.columbus.oh.us> writes:
>W8/W9
>seems to have had the worst of the propagation in this contest. Only
>loud
>stations here were OH's. QSB was extremely bad. Did anyone else in
>W8
>notice this? Went outside to find the qth fogged in.
>
>Funniest thing was listening to W8LRL tell someone that the dx window
>was
>1825-1830!
>
>Has per the W8 comment from km1h (being I seemed to be the only W8
>calling
>most stations!).
>
> If you are refering to me than you
>probably didn't listen long enough to here the dx confirm my call.
How would I know...I dont have any idea what your call is. As far as
listening...believe me I spent plenty of time listening to this
guy...they were never confirmed at that time. Maybe worked again
later...dunno...dont care. The point is he didnt have a clue what was
going on.
>Many
>times the station would come back to me only to have my QSO QRM'd by
>the
>east coast dipole crowd or the QSB/QRN to mask the signal. I think
>most
>people only log those who confirm the call and I think your last
>comment
>you have jumped to a typical false conclusion.
Touchy, touchy....but I hate to inform you that there were several 8
landers active. So dont get off in a snit...just yet.
Bring your slinkey's
>to Ohio
>sometime and operate. Then you'd know what it really takes to operate
>topband.
Maybe I could teach you a few things then....that I learned over 25 yrs
ago in Illinois. It requires skill..not just a lot of noise.
BTW, the SNR was much better on the Slinky's last night compared to the
wire Beverages.
Have fun....Carl KM1H
>
>Heard VK9LX, but they didn't seem to try to work anybody. Just QRZ?
>QRZ?
>
>
>
>On Sat, 29 Nov 1997 km1h@juno.com wrote:
>
>> As usual a few of the multis were deaf and missing many callers.
>Also,
>> one 8 land station will probably set a record for stations logged
>but not
>> worked....at least he was usually heard giving reports while the DX
>was
>> calling CQ or working someone else. A typical contest on Topband!
>
>
>
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