Topband: DX Window

[G3SVL]

At 23:31 27/01/2007, Phil Clements wrote:
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>What I noticed last night was that very few rare DX stations take 
>advantage of the DX Window. Some of the juiciest ones were operating 
>far into the phone portion of the band. As high as 1884 khz!
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Remember Phil, the bandplan is only 'advisory' in Region1 so it makes 
sense to spread ourselves up the band. 
(http://www.iaru-r1.org/05%2010%2009%20Region%201%20HF%20Bandplan%202006%20(Amended).pdf). 
I only came across a few phone QSO's during the night and they were 
up near 1900.

<snip>
>I listened in on the live audio and web cam that the station in 
>PA-land (P5M) has up for the contest
>http://160.p5m.com/mainpage.php?band=160 Now I know why the EU 
>stations don't bother with us; every QSO was S-9+++, and almost 
>every QSO was a new country
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Huh! Sure there are a lot of S-9+++ signals (with associated key 
clicks) but once you've worked the 40- 50  DX countries that are 
readily accessible in EU you need to get the NA mults -- and where 
are they? crammed into 30Khz and under all those S-9+++ EU 
signals!  You can't run up a decent score from here without getting W 
mults (unless there is zero propagation and no one makes it across - 
which is rare!)

Anyway, my signal made it into Tx this morning, condx were better 
than yesterday. So far 20 NA & 54 DX mults - but no GW, GI or GU - 
how weird is that!!

73  Chris G3SVL