[CQ-Contest] QRM in DX Window

[Zack Widup]

A 2 kHz hole would be a HUGE hole for CW and still a big hole for 
SSB. I've tried to fit into such holes many times myself.  It seems I had 
such a puny signal in SSB SS that I didn't bother anyone.  I didn't get 
any answers to my CQ's, either.  :-(

Also, IMO there's no sense having a DX window here in mid-USA on 160 or 80 
meters at noon.  Very few people in these heah parts are going to work 
much DX at that time on those bands.  A friend of mine put up a bobtail 
curtain some years ago and was working DX round the clock on 40, though, 
in the middle of winter.  As the days got longer there were times when he 
couldn't work DX on 40. I never heard it on my dipole.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, N7MAL wrote:

> Bud that was a reply right on the money. Thank you. I have received several 
> emails criticizing me and asking me to define the holes in the band I've 
> been referring to for SS & CQWWSSB. I am a contester, if I can fit my signal 
> in a space it's a hole. A 2khz space is a big hole. There were many of those 
> holes in SS  on 80m and on 40m during CQWWSSB. I hope that clarifies my 
> definition of a hole.
> 73
> 
> 
> MAL
> N7MAL
> BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
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