Topband: Wednesday 160m DX CW Activity Night

[Tim Shoppa]

Large swaths of both the contesting and DXing communities are not hooked up for RBN skimmer spots. No more than a few percent of supposedly active cluster nodes even carry skimmer spots. As a result there is a very real spike in activity when manual spots are entered into the cluster even in CW events.

Tim N3QE

> On Nov 21, 2019, at 8:07 AM, g3nkc via Topband <topband at contesting.com> wrote:
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> Hi Roger  ,  Not questioning self spotting, but you should get picked up by skimmers when CQ ing?? W3LPL is a great example. I'm on all bands this weekend from MD4K, we were getting out well in the SSB event with a dipole at 60ft. Worked PZ5K On SSB !Hoping condx are good this weekend73 Dave, G3NKC/ MD4K Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> -------- Original message --------From: Roger Kennedy <roger at wessexproductions.co.uk> Date: 21/11/2019  12:09  (GMT+00:00) To: topband at contesting.com Subject: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX CW Activity Night Well conditions were quite up and down last night . . . but good to hearquite a lot of stations making the effort to get on Top Band on CW.The whole idea is to at least have a FOCUS of at least one night when we canget a lot of stations on the band working each other, and Wednesday seems agood choice.  (back in the day it was always Saturday night on 160m . . .but I think these days people often have social lives with their partners orfamily at the weekend)I usually come on the band from 23.30Z to 01.00Z . . . then around 03.00 fora while . . . then around our Sunrise (07.00)One thing I have noted . . . after working a few NA stations, I called CQfor ages, with no replies . . . so I spotted MYSELF on the DX Cluster (naffthing to do, I know) . . but guess what? I then started getting LOADS ofreplies.So please guys, can we try and Spot each other, to promote CW activity?(The FT8 boys do this all the time!)  I know some people make a point ofalways doing this, like W0FLS - thanks Dave ! And I've said it before, but I'll say it again . . . it doesn't matter howmany times I've worked a station before . . . EVERY QSO over 2000 miles onTop Band gives me a thrill . . . so please don't hesitate to give me a callif you hear me on ! (and I'm sure most other British stations think thesame)Hope we can have even more CW stations on the band next Wednesday !73 Roger G3YRO_________________Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
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