[CQ-Contest] Don't EU stations use the RBN feeds?

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

I was amazed at how early I was able to work EU last night on 40.  
Normally I hear them fine but never ever do they respond....not so 
yesterday.  I wish I had tried earlier.  There were plenty I called that 
we couldn't make it happen or they just never heard me.

I tried calling CQ as well and got 2 people even with spots.

Strange.  Not that US and Zone 4 is rare.

W0MU


On 11/28/2016 8:45 AM, Gerry Hull wrote:
> Europe opened to NA very early on 40m this weekend; it was runable from
> K2LE by
> 13:30 local both Saturday and Sunday.
>
> When I would call CQ, the RBN would light up like a Christmas tree from EU
> skimmers with very good reports.
>
> However, little would call in until I was manually spotted by a caller, and
> a pile ensued.
>
> BTW, congrats to the RBN team for quickly bringing the system back up after
> it died!
> (They exceeded a PHP config threshold)...  Essentially rebooting CQWW!! :-)
>
> 73, Gerry W1VE @ K2LE this weekend
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