[3830] Skimmers - VE6SQ

[Villy Madsen]

Had an interesting experience in the ARRL RTTY RU.

I run 100 watts into a BigIr.  Does a reasonable job - but for some reason 15m is more than reasonable.

I hardly even bother using skimmers and the like - just to hard to break through the crowd.  Sometimes I manage to get a bit of a run going, but his weekend saw one run that absolutely floored me.

VE6 is not usually that well represented on RTTY - this weekend I think there might have been 2 of us.

I had a run on 15 that absolutely floored me.  If I worked half of the stations calling me - I would be surprised.  I managed to keep it up for an hour before I was called for "other duties".  The sad part was, the pile up was so bad that it was almost counter productive.  Thanks to everyone who contributed..

Villy
VE6SQ