[CQ-Contest] I can feel the heat! Fwoosh!

[K3BU at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/31/2001 17:46:29 Eastern Standard Time,
kg2au at stny.rr.com writes:

 > I've heard these allegations before and there is something I've
 >  always wondered about:
 >
 >  Even if some kind of illegal high power transmitter was used to
 >  achieve signals that were 40 or 30 or however many dB louder than
 >  anyone else, they still had to HEAR all the stations they worked.
 >
 >  I'd like to know how they managed to hear so many stations. Were they
 >  somehow cheating on the receive side also?
 >
 >  Jimmy


Hi Jimmy,
it works like this:
he sat whole contest on 1840, didn't move for a second. He actually had
"chaser" going around and telling him about some multipliers right on
frequency (multi op ?). Then when you sit on one frequency whole contest, you
blast it clear, especially with high power, no one comes close and you have
clear channel for receiving and you can hear better than other slobs that
have to fight QRM. There is another phenomena, it appears that frequency can
be conditioned by constant transmitting, and propagation enhanced. Kind of
ionospheric heating. I have seen that many times, After the contest I would
have QSO with OK2RZ we talk for about half an hour, and then band dies.
That's how he "cheated" on receive. It helps tremendously. Beverages close to
the ocean really work too.

73 Yuri


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