Topband: mode separation...small stn dx oppty

Tom Rauch w8ji at contesting.com
Wed Apr 21 00:16:01 EDT 2004


> With today's modern equipment, high power and big
antennas,  some of the
> superstations on the band can probably do it in one
season.

It isn't only because stations are bigger and technology
better, but because more countries are active. When Stew was
working DXCC, he had to wait months or years for a new
country to appear. There weren't 100 countries active at any
given time, not even remotely close in the early years.

73 Tom




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