Topband: "Studying the Noise" in CQWW 160 CW (Was: RE: SM2CEW SPfindings)

[Jim Brown]

On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 20:12:35 -0700, Milt, N5IA wrote:

>This "Phenonema" was VERY prevalent this past weekend when many, many 
>stations with strong signals were already CQing when my receiver recovered 
>from the transmitter sending my quite short callsign ONE time at 26-28 wpm.

>Can't work 'em if you don't listen for 'em.

I had exactly that experience with WE3C and K3WW -- Q5 here, but each time I 
tried, they were calling CQ again before I had finished sending my call. Too 
bad -- these were 9 point Q's for high power. 

And you can't work an S4 station through an S8 noise level either. I've been 
on the noisy end of that one too, and it's no fun. 

73,

Jim K9YC