In a message dated 3/17/05 10:45:28 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
tom@klient.com writes:
Hi Bob. I didn't mean to say that anyone here could stand a chance against
the west coasters doing a run of JAs in a contest. In a contest, I'm happy
to get one JA station on each of the low bands for the multiplier :) As you
know, EU is the bread and butter on the east coast when it comes to racking
up the points.
Absolutely re Eu, Tom. I recognize that clearly, as I did when I lived in
MI. I still miss those seemingly never ending Eu runs on 40 I could do even
there, let alone what you folks do in the real east, hi. There were MULTS in
those runs. JA is but a one. ;-)
>I was talking more about DXing than contesting. He was referring to seeing
the cluster spots of Asian stations in the morning hours. I was under the
impression he was interested in working DX, not running JA stations in a
contest.
Ahh.....ok. Maybe I should have followed the thread more closely. I am kinda
one dimensional, pretty much only a contester and I gorget that others may
not be. ;-)
>When it comes to hunting down that rare DX, the fact that you have 8 to 10
hours of short-path openings to Asia every night is exactly why I said what I
did! Here on the east coast we need to take advantage of those long-path
40m openings at 5:30pm in December. You won't be in the 40m pileup at 2:30pm
local time. Sure, we can work them at sunrise also, but at that time we'll be
competing with the west coast stations.
For sure.You're right, at 1430 local (2130Z) I am at least an hour away from
hearing much on 40. Even then, its usually the Eu biggies that I worked the
night before SP or morning LP. We have a true LP opening to Eu and the Mideast
in early morning here, around sunrise. Vy good sigs. Vy reliable and lasts
an hour or two.
73, Bob K8IA
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