[CQ-Contest] 40 meter SSB Contest musings

[Richard DiDonna NN3W]

For now, its a universal problem on 40.  I spent a lot 
of time on Saturday night during ARRL DX and you could 
tell that the DX stations were having to cluster their 
listening freqs away from the BCI.  I would find a lot 
of stations listening on the same freq or within 0.50 
Kc of each other.  There was a huge cluster of folks 
listening from 7288 to 7292 which must be a clear 
frequency range in Europe.

Others were listening around 7210 to 7213.

With 0.5 Kc spacing on receive, I think most folks 
could tell whose Qs were whose.  But certainly there 
was some overlap.

73 Rich NN3W

--- Original Message ---
From: "N4XM Paul D. Schrader" <n4xm at iglou.com>
To: "CQ Contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
CC: David Thompson <thompson at mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 40 meter SSB Contest musings

>Dave,
>
>W4BCV!!! That sounds like a nice call.
>
>Paul  N4XM (ex W4BCV)
>
>
>At 05:52 PM 3/28/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>>I got on and worked several pages of DX mostly cross 
band.
>>
>>The most serious problem I noted was you never know 
who is working who.  By
>>that I mean say CN2R is listening on 7254 and W4XX 
calls on that frequency
>>and replies 59205.  Is he really working CN2R or 
another DX station.  I
>>noticed on Saturday nite that CN2R was asking "are 
you calling me?"
>>
>>Most serious contestants have gotten that "worked 
before" after a few
>>contacts from a Dx station.
>>
>>I decided to give their call quickly without 
phonetics then the call I was
>>using at the club (W4BCV).  One Italian 
replied "finally one I know that is
>>working me".
>>
>>I also noted G6PZ was using their newly allocated 
band and working simplex
>>on 7153.
>>
>>73 Dave K4JRB  (W4BCV)
>>
>>
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