Interesting comments!
I specifically listened at my SR but heard no JA's.
Also typically in this contest at certain hours I get a steady stream
of W6, W7 replies - many surprisingly strong. This time it was less
than 20. The West was fairly sparse, there were many cracks in the QRM
wall, and it seemed most sigs were from the NE, Mid-Atlantic regions.
4 Land is usually a big contributor to the log, but again this time
much less so.
Probably goes to show just how telescopic propagation can be on TB, ie
spotty. Re: DX: I looked for every DX spot and heard none from EU. The
Carrib was about it. No CA or SA ( other than XE.) Or Pacific other
than KH6.
Dits and dahs: My CQ CW Contest submission feedback results get hit
pretty hard by penalties, and one of the major errors is the other guy
logging me as SKK - so now I try to repeat it an extra time, slowing
way down on the H. I thought I might have a sending problem with my
7610 memories, but now chalk it up to noise/qsb/haste to move on to
the next guy. I do hear and appreciate when the other guy slows down
his call. Really helps me get it right by minimizing guesses.
Worked KH6 around 11:30 pm local time here..a bit of a surprise, and
then later saw a spot for KL7 but he was buried in the noise and never
got him in the log. Usually hear them well around my midnight and
sometimes before my SR. Nothing else heard from the Pacific or JA,
even though I had worked JA two mornings before.
Bob
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