[CQ-Contest] Domestic stations in CQWW

[Mike Fatchett W0MU]

Or more people are getting on HF with smaller stations and with the poor
conditions working stateside was better than working nobody....


On 11/1/07 2:10 PM, "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> --- Richard DiDonna NN3W <nn3w at cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> Did anyone else besides him and I notice a marked increase in the number of
>> W/K stations answering domestic CQs this past weekend?  My stateside QSO
>> count went from 152 in 2006 to 231 in 2007.  And that 231 number is the
>> result of the fact that around 1900z I changed my CQ loop message to "CQ
>> countest outside of the United States?"
> 
> Just a theory...
> 
> When did ARRL add the WAS award to LoTW?  Was it this year?
> 
> Contesters can be good electronic QSLers.  Maybe people are taking advantage
> of
> this as a short cut to ragchews and collecting cards for their WAS award.
> 
> 73 - Jim AD1C
> 
> 
> --
> Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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