Topband: CQ 160 WW experience

[Tree]

> On Saturday night I took some time out from CQing to slowly tune the whole band in search-and-pounce mode, bottom to top, a number of times. I was using my FT1000MP, with the Inrad roofing filter, and the pair of 250 hz Inrad IF filters were switched in. The phased Beverages were toward Europe, of course, and I was looking to add as many 10-pointers as possible. Every turn of the dial found another DX station wedged in tightly between -- or directly under -- some USA station calling CQ, oblivious to the DX beneath. A quick call, a reply from the DX and I'd be tuning the dial up for the next one with the stateside station wondering what was going on. Many of the stateside stations thought I must be calling them, and sent me a report. Usually these were dupes anyway, but in a few cases they were new calls so I was able to simultaneously log both stations -- DX and stateside. This went on all the way up to 1890 kHz or a bit higher. If I couldn't work the DX with a call or two, i

I have to share this story...  back in the 1990 CQ 160, I found myself in 
Texas at the QTH of N5KO / WN4KKN.  We had a spotlight European opening 
(putting about 50 of them in the log) and we worked Europe right over AA1K
who was evidently not in the spotlight.

:-)

Tree N6TR