Topband: ARRL 160 contest observation

[Shoppa, Tim]

After CQ WW CW, I was talking with a guy in Arizona who had worked 100+ JA's on 160 in that test! More than half a continent away, very different perspective on 160 than mine!

Tim N3QE

-----Original Message-----
From: Ashton Lee [mailto:Ashton.R.Lee at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 10:12 AM
To: Shoppa, Tim
Cc: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL 160 contest observation

Come out to Colorado and you won't have the problem of mass European pile ups.


On Dec 11, 2013, at 8:03 AM, Shoppa, Tim <tshoppa at wmata.com> wrote:

> I spent almost all of the second night of the ARRL 160 test, just running, little to no S&P. This probably shows up in my final score as a high QSO count but comparatively low mult count. I certainly didn't rack up the most 5-pointers of the east coast guys, either!
> 
> Interestingly... whenever I worked a DX station while running, sometimes even before I successfully copied all of the DX's call, other folks would start showing up on my run frequency trying to work, I guess, the DX. Often I worked them even if they were dupes.
> 
> Sometimes the EU DX I worked seemed to come "in a streak" too. I don't have the best station in the world and it's unusual for me to work 5 EU's in a row but it happened on several occasions. This may have just been a couple of "good condx to EU" highlights the second evening.
> I'll be going to go back and look at reversebeacon and manual spots from those nights, and see what correlations there might be.
> 
> Tim N3QE
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