[NCC] CQWW SSB This Weekend

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

This weekend is the CQWW SSB DX contest.  In other years this would be  one 
of the biggest contests of the year, but with the sun stuck in neutral at a  s
olar flux of 67, I and many others find it hard to get excited about all of  
Europe and the USA struggling to squeeze into a couple of hundred kilohertz on  
20 meters.
 
Note, however, that there is a way to make things a bit more  interesting:  
CQ does not have the ARRL's obsession with the use of  different callsigns by 
the same transmitter or operator at a station location.  Therefore you can work 
the contest under several different callsigns during the  course of the 
weekend.
 
Here is a chance to fire up some of those rarely used callsigns, make some  
extra points for the clubs, and at least have the fun of working all those big  
guns several times (for credit) during the weekend.
 
Good luck to all!
 
 
Jim   K8MR



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