I know I am preaching to the choir hear, but maybe you can bring this
observation back to your club.
Propagation at our site sucked. There were a number of times when I could
hear someone right at the noise floor so I would call with CW. A time or
two I even heard them get the call sign. However, they wouldn't or
couldn't switch to CW and we couldn't complete the circuit on phone. (Yes,
we tried.)
I think some stations forgot or didn't know two important things:
cross mode Q's don't count for FD.
you can work stations multiple times if you use a different mode each time.
So, when conditions are poor as they were last weekend;
use CW and digital modes to eek out as many as possible,
work the strong stations again with the other modes.
Now, I'm off for the weekend!
73,
Bryan - k0emt
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