That's just how this contest works, as they say.
Around 0700 on Saturday, my "time since last QSO"
timer hit 10 minutes. I went to S&P and found
just a handful of stations that weren't dupes,
and worked them. Time for bed. Got up at 1100
(that's 3AM here on the left coast) and worked
across the US sunrise. I only made a few dozen
QSO's by 1300, by which time the band was worked
out and I went QRT. I did get two mults in
that time SC and MAR. Jeff, with his famous
beacon station VY2ZM called me over an hour
after his sunrise. He was barely audible here
but I got him in the log. My new Flex 6700
was instrumental in this and many other QSO's
that probably wouldn't have been made with
the FT-1000 I used for the last 15 years.
It seems so 1990 now.
On Sunday morning, the few non-dupes heard
CQing were fresh meat and were being mobbed by
callers on the east coast. I and other
left coasters with decent signals could not
break through the pileups!
Rick N6RK
On 12/5/2016 7:44 AM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
Shelby,
The first night there were still plenty of stations on after 0700.
Maybe it was conditions or that is just how this contest works. I was
not able to stay awake and figured I would catch up on Saturday. I was
wrong. After 0700 there were very few stations on Saturday night.
(Sunday UTC).
W0MU
On 12/5/2016 8:01 AM, Shelby Summerville wrote:
I'm not very functional between 0200-0700 UTC, and without divulging
any of y'all's secrets, how more activity, mainly Stateside, is
between 02-07 UTC, than there is after 07 UTC?
Thanks, and Happy Holidays to all
C'ya, Shelby
As I don't have an iPhone, nor an iPad, sent from my PC
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