[CQ-Contest] Torture

[Dennis OConnor]

I've never heard a JA and a DL on 160 at the same time.  Not 
even from W8JI.
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  Well, it was a DL was near, as I could tell, they were calling...   I listened with the #2 receiver on the pile and set to 3KC wide, and the #1 at 300 cycles and fished for this magical dx station I supposedly qrm'd - up band, down band, in the pile, on the edges, not to be found by me...  After roughly 5 minutes, I lost interest and moved on as the JA was gone by then... 

  Interestingly, I did work the same JA 12 hours later....
   
   
  Now on my posting, you do not know me, but I do not post a 'hypothetical' as something that actually happened... I do not exaggerate or make things up... If I say I heard this or that, I did - or believe I did...
  John, I am in no position to dispute the operators of the JI superstation, with my little pistol station...  And after nearly 50 years of hamming, I don't have anything to prove so I don't even try... Your post did make me wonder if I had misheard the JA, so I pulled up Geoclock just now and set it to that time... It was sunrise in Europe and sunset in Northern Japan so I see nothing to make me doubt what I heard...  To the best of my recollection, I heard the JA best on the transmit array beaming Northeast - sometimes it happens that the transmit array will hear better than the listening antennas...
   
  cheers -
   
   


denny / k8do
       
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