Glad I was "almost" spotted. Saw quite a few erroneous spots in the
contest due to the less than stellar conditions, myself.
I see we havent worked yet this year....time is running out but the
10M this weekend is a good place to remedy that.
Bob
-----------------------------------------From: "Rob Van Geen"
To: W3HKK@roadrunner.com
Cc: "topband@contesting.com"
Sent: Tuesday December 5 2023 8:31:55PM
Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL 160 Test - barren of DX
You were spotted to DX cluster as "W3SKK" Saturday:
Spotter
Freq.
DX
Time
Info
Country
K1KA
1806
W3SKK
22:21 02 Dec 23
United States
This could explain the high dupe rate.
tskk, tskk, tskk
Rob - NH6V
On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 11:15 AM wrote:
Tnx for the qso, Jim.
I worked a mere six CA stations, fewer than half of the 7 land
states,
one KH6. and a smattering of Carib/C.A. stations. Several locals gave
up early Fri night due to the poor/few signals ota.
I started at 2200z prompt and worked a so-so 109 stations during the
first 80 minutes. XYL announced dinner so I took an hour break, came
back and saw the rates declining -instead of increasing- and holes
appearing in the bandscope. Not many blockbuster sigs either, with
moderate QRN,
Day 2 began with a bang...45% of my contacts were DUPES...until I
decided to check for the N1MM+ DUPE alert before gong back to the
guy.
Id give his call, then say SRI-DUPE-and resume CQing. Miraculously
after a while the dupes went way down. (perhaps the friendly reminder
changed some behavior.) ( rather than just working them and letting
the software sort it out.) But spending half your time on dupes
seemed
ridiculous.
Also during both nights I heard only two Euros. But s they wee
replying to someone elses CQ I never had a chance to call them. So
zero Euros in the 2023 log. I reflected back to 2020 when 160 was
wide
open to EU and it was great fun working them right and left.
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