Topband: FINALLY an SWL card worth having!

Tom Rauch w8ji at contesting.com
Sun Mar 18 18:29:32 EST 2007


> Maybe...  I also got a card from VU2-0020,
> interestingly at the exact time VU2BGS answered
> my CQ in 2004.  I'm attaching a couple of emails
> from him below.  Being a bit skeptical by nature,
> I'd really be more impressed if I knew all SWLs
> actually heard NA DX unassisted, without listening
> to a local station (e.g. VQ9LA, A45XR, 8Q7DV,
> etc) actually making the QSO...or were not simply
> monitoring Packet spots.

I'm sure that goes on.  I've received several cards where 
the SWL obviously was watching the cluster. Some from 
mid-day at the SWL location. It's almost like the WAZ scam 
using 18MHz cards.

I never trust a report where the SWL might really be 
listening to another local station.

My best SWL report was from 4S7. I knew it was good because 
there was no such thing as a cluster back then and I was 
working (now sk-)W2EQS.

Anything after the days of clusters is suspect IMO.

73 Tom 




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