15m impressions

[Skelton, Tom]

Question for the West Coast guns:
In the last few years, have you worked more
JA's on 10 meters than 15 or 20?  To follow up on
Alan's thread, is it possible that with high sunspot
numbers the 10 m JA ops are more workable?

73, and hope to heck Murphy stays out of my life
for the ARRL SSB test! Tom WB4IUX
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From: tgv.com!cq-contest-relay
To: ERIC.L.SCACE
Cc: CQ-CONTEST
Subject: Re: 15m impressions
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 1993 7:38AM

Interesting comments, Eric. Congrats on a fine score.

After looking at the scores posted this morning by Dave, I would say that
most of
us out here in the west are humbled by the megascores you guys in the east
enjoy.

There is no doubt in my mind that the activity level in JA continues to
decline on
HF. I have been operating in the DX contests since the early '60s and it
seems that
each year there is less and less activity out of the far east - particularly
on CW.
Thank goodness there are always the perennial club stations for all of us to
work
on all the bands, but I believe that the JAs and hams in the other countries
over
there too are plagued by the same problems that we have here - having to 
live
in an
apartment where you cannot have an effective HF antenna system, RFI 
problems,
and
so on.

Does anyone think that the DX contest should be shortened again? (It used to
be a
week or two long, then 96 hours, and now 48). I listened around quite a bit
on
Sunday, and many of the big stations were calling CQ after CQ with no 
takers.
If we
have to start paying extra for every KWH that we use, those unanswered CQs
could
start getting expensive .... ..

Alan

alan at dsd.es.com