[SECC] 80m question -wn4afp

[Kevan Nason]

Hello Dave,

Ordinarily I'd say you would likely end up going crazy from hearing
yourself say CQ a thousand times without an answer. Not sure though with
the higher bands being shutdown like they often are now, but still think
you wouldn't get many responses. I'll settle with the answer of if you are
into the "fun" factor more than the possibility of wall paper then don't
bother with 80 during the day. If you're hoping for something else to add
to your already formidable collection of plaques and certificates then you
have to try for q's in daylight hours.

That advice comes from past experiences calling on 40 and 80 during the day
with NS4 and NQ4. The station size or rarity of the prefix didn't seem to
matter much. There just weren't very many answers during daylight hours. I
(we) would pick up some q's, which sometimes is all the difference it takes
to eek out a win, but the rates were down at the 5 to 10 an hour rate. Not
much fun there.  Again, maybe it will be better if the higher bands are
poor that weekend. " Ya' pays your money and takes your choices."

There are literally thousands of unique prefixes so although a rare one
helps, it isn't as strong a draw as you might think it is. I've borrowed
WW4 and WX4 calls in some of the last few WPX's I've done but didn't see as
much of a difference in score when I went back to my own N4 as I expected
to.

Kevan
N4XL (ex NS4T)


On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Dave Edmonds <dave at pkministrywebs.com>
wrote:

> I am considering operating 80m in the wpx.  If I run on 80m during
> daylight hours, is my callsign rare enough that ops in my area will QSY
> from high bands to work me?
>
> Dave WN4AFP
> Greenville, SC
>
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