Topband: DX window

[k6xt]

One sure way to open the DX window to DX is to blacklist us/ve who CQ 
there. At least temporarily. Which is what I do, just pass them by even 
when they're 40 over and I need the mult. Tough love. If there's a DX 
station nearby I'll surely try to work it, perhaps with a judicious VFO 
offset to make sure the DX can hear me.

Not that I keep a list or anything. I don't. If they just keep CQn in 
the window I'll never work them. Sooner or later they'll find me up or 
down the band.

A DL wondered how many DX can coexist in 5kHz. Not many. But its a lot 
more than is possible to work if US/VE are CQing in that 5kHz!

Another noted there's no "rule" in terms of licensing structure about 
the window. True. Its been a gentlemen's agreement since way before I 
was first licensed.

-- 
73 Art K6XT~~
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
ARRL, GMCC, CW OPS, NAQCC
ARRL TA