[CQ-Contest] 80M DX window???

Zack Widup w9sz at prairienet.org
Thu Nov 21 08:34:16 EST 2002


On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Ragnar Otterstad wrote:

> 
> Leigh makes a very good point. Since we got the VK "window at 3794 to 3800 I
> find it hard to make anything like a good number of Q's on 80.
> 
> It is really not fair to tie up this window with endless CQ's. I tried to
> get it made a contest free zone here in VK because I knew what would happen.
> However, that was not successful. Although I am sure those that hand out
> numbers there would, in the main, scream like stuck pigs if I were to really
> set the CQ machine going there and monopolise it.
> 
> ------------------
> Once again it appears that CW is the answer !  I can work VK6HD on 80  CW
> almost any day in the season.
> 
> 
> 73
> 
> Rag Otterstad    LA5HE also JW5HE OZ8RO

I can remember working VP6BR on 3795 on CW a few years ago.  I thought it
was a strange frequency for a CW pileup, but there he was!

73, Zack W9SZ




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