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Re: Topband: CQ 160 WW experience

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Subject: Re: Topband: CQ 160 WW experience
From: Tree <tree@kkn.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 08:42:41 -0800
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> On Saturday night I took some time out from CQing to slowly tune the whole 
> band in search-and-pounce mode, bottom to top, a number of times. I was using 
> my FT1000MP, with the Inrad roofing filter, and the pair of 250 hz Inrad IF 
> filters were switched in. The phased Beverages were toward Europe, of course, 
> and I was looking to add as many 10-pointers as possible. Every turn of the 
> dial found another DX station wedged in tightly between -- or directly under 
> -- some USA station calling CQ, oblivious to the DX beneath. A quick call, a 
> reply from the DX and I'd be tuning the dial up for the next one with the 
> stateside station wondering what was going on. Many of the stateside stations 
> thought I must be calling them, and sent me a report. Usually these were 
> dupes anyway, but in a few cases they were new calls so I was able to 
> simultaneously log both stations -- DX and stateside. This went on all the 
> way up to 1890 kHz or a bit higher. If I couldn't work the DX with a call or 
> two,
  i

I have to share this story...  back in the 1990 CQ 160, I found myself in 
Texas at the QTH of N5KO / WN4KKN.  We had a spotlight European opening 
(putting about 50 of them in the log) and we worked Europe right over AA1K
who was evidently not in the spotlight.

:-)

Tree N6TR
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