Topband: ARRL 160m contest and DX Window?

[Mike Waters]

That must have been earlier, Len.  I didn't start into the contest until
0945 UTC. Maybe tonight will be different.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Lennart m <lennart.michaelsson at telia.com>
wrote:

> Mike et al, no answer to your open Q but I just scanned the band yday and I
> did work  quite a few US stations being not very loud but ...they wera
> listening in all directions at the same time. Hope to catch u as well.
> 73
> Len
> SM7BIC
>
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> Skickat: den 6 december 2014 15:28
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> Kopia: Petr Ourednik
> Ämne: Re: Topband: ARRL 160m contest and DX Window?
>
> After playing in the ARRL DX contest in the early morning hours, it looks
> to
> me that what is *really* needed is a small DX window somewhere in the 15
> kHz
> JA segment 1810-1825. Heck, it could even be less than 5 kHz wide.
>
> From my QTH in the central USA, I could copy JAs who were working NA
> stations; and some JAs spotted NA stations in the cluster. But 1810-1825
> was
> wall-to-wall NA stations calling CQ.
>
> What are the chances of such a DX window making it into the rules? Maybe in
> a future Stew?
>
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