Topband: Don Miller and CW Pileup Management

[HAROLD SMITH JR]

Hi Don

Yes - we both remember the Don Miller style of working a CW pileup pretty much 
the same way.

In this case, I quickly realized that if I stuck with the CORE PILE I was going 
to have to really WORK HARD in order to pull out any calls - because the guys 
were totally out of control and calling wildly and non-stop.

I am not sure how I came to do what I did, except to say - that, like you, I 
knew the opening might not repeat itself (Krassy too had only one night at ST0R 
that was wide open) and he made the most of it  I learned from that and from the 
Miller remembrances.

So I just winged it and listened up and down for those on the fringes - in order 
to maximize the potential of the opening.


Hi Jeff, 

Sorry I missed you from 7O6T. 

I remember Don Miller very well. I worked him from every place that he went. 

My first QSO with him was in 1959 on 15 CW, when I was in Germany in the Army. I 
was DL4SH. 

At that time he was WN9WMV.

73 Price W0RI