Topband: Stew Perry Warm-Up
Victor A. Kean, Jr.
vkean at k1lt.com
Sun Oct 19 14:39:16 EDT 2008
After the contest was over, I like to do a little "ego-surfing"
by looking to see how many times I was spotted on the spotting
networks. However, this time I was a bit disturbed to see more
spots from stations that I did not work than normal. Several
of those would have been multipliers in a multiplier style test.
To me here in Ohio, it seemed like activity from central Europe
was missing compared to last year. I worked several UK stations,
one each EI, PA, and F, and a couple of DLs in western Europe,
and a few UAs and URs in eastern Europe, but nothing in between.
I worked 2 S5s, an I, an SV, and a couple of SMs, but no OKs,
HAs, LZs, SPs, OMs, or LYs.
Was I in the central Europe "anti-spotlight" this year? Or did
the Worked All Germany contest divert the Europeans to the higher
bands? Has my station become an alligator, and I failed to hear
workable callers?
I did fall asleep in the chair while CQing a couple of times, but
nothing longer than about 15 minutes. If someone wants to tell
me how I was a lid, that would be great so I can learn from my
mistakes.
Thanks!
Victor, K1LT
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