[CQ-Contest] Uniques in WRTC

Jim Rhodes k0xu at iowadsl.net
Sun Jul 16 20:04:56 EDT 2006


I suspect you will be getting a card request from that op. It 
probably isn't in a log that will be submitted.

At 02:47 PM 7/15/2006, Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
>As an only vaguely relevant data point...
>
>I made about 2/3 of the 40 CW contacts at W1AW/4.
>
>Late Saturday night, a HQ station in a small country called.  We
>exchanged the normal data and signed.
>
>Immediately afterwards, another "regular" station in the same country
>called.  He was on *exactly* the same frequency, *exactly* equal in
>signal strength, had *exactly* the same code speed, and *exactly* the
>same fist.  We exchanged the normal information and signed.
>
>Of course, I *strongly* suspect both QSOs were with the same station &
>operator.  But I don't know anybody in this country - I'm quite certain
>this "extra" QSO was not arranged by anybody on the W1AW/4 team.  It
>happened solely on the initiative of the DX operator.
>
>Now, this didn't affect the scores really at all...  besides the HQ
>station, we only worked three other stations in this country...  and as
>an interesting aside, we worked the HQ station on two other bands but 40
>CW was the only band where we worked the "regular* station in question.
>--
>Doug Smith W9WI
>Pleasant View (Nashville), TN  EM66
>http://www.w9wi.com
>
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Jim Rhodes K0XU
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