My experience during the contest was that the contest ended up being mostly geared toward the DX stations and the HP stations. Not a whole lot of DX stations were calling CQ, they were just working the US CQ&#39;s. Even if there were any incredibly weak DX signals it didn&#39;t take long before a US HP station appeared withing 40 kHz and totally messed up any chances of pulling the weak signal out of the noise and signals. Then basically the only option was to call CQ in the hopes that THEY would hear you. However, it&#39;s nearly impossible for a station like me (running 50 watts) to hold their ground calling CQ. Plus it&#39;s hard to even find an open space to even call CQ. I don&#39;t know if this is even relevant to the question, but that was my experience, and it ended up being very frustrating. <div>
<br></div><div>chris / kj4hyg</div>