Topband: To Topband Contesters ( 1 Day After)

[bruce whitney]

K8OT
I guess I will break my code of silence on this issue.
I haven't really been at this too long - but you might want to keep in mind that with the extreme conditions of this contest I was running my receive BW down as low as 20 to 100 HZ many times. I would try and widen it up - just to get clobbered and not be able to hear anything but extremely strong signals. I also would wiggle my RIT around a bit - but it is certainly conceivable that somebody responding to a CQ - if not zero beat - could get missed - at least for a few cycles maybe.
Bruce W8RA 


--- On Tue, 2/1/11, Gedking at aol.com <Gedking at aol.com> wrote:

> From: Gedking at aol.com <Gedking at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: Topband: To Topband Contesters ( 1 Day After)
> To: oz7yy at mail.dk, topband at contesting.com
> Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 8:40 PM
> YUP those chair sitters I got on
> for  while. I thought I would pass  out a 
> few points so I was just S&P with 100 wts. because I
> have a job here  at 
> home now. and can't put in a lot of hours.
> I  ran across some of them, I called that were calling
> CQ over and  over 
> and didn't answer my call even though I could not hear
> anybody else calling  
> them and I would stand bye when I heard somebody calling
> them to see if they 
> got  an answer. nothing!!! I guess they had auto CQ on
> and either had to go  
> potty or maybe for Coffee or did they go to sleep with auto
> CQ on. these  
> are the same ones who worry about rates?? and just have to
> hold that Freq at 
> all  costs. Alligators????, OH well!!
> ED K8OT
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