Topband: Good Conditions, little NA Activity

[Roger Kennedy]

Hi Ian

Well what gives ME a buzz is EVERY DX contact on Top Band, i.e. any station
more than a couple of thousand miles away . . . it doesn't bother me how
many times I have worked that station before.  And it doesn't bother me
whether they are in a big country or on a tiny island.  It's the fact I'm
doing things the hard way, having long distance contacts on a frequency that
isn't really designed for it.  It's been my main interest in this hobby for
the past 50 years !

If I come on Top Band during a Contest, I only want to spend a couple of
hours on the band, so am just looking to try and work as many DX stations in
that time as possible . . . I don't want to waste time working hundreds of
Europeans that I could work any time!  So that's why I wouldn't put out a CQ
call. 

73 Roger G3YRO

-----Original Message-----

Roger

I think that Mike makes a very good case.  A good number of us who enjoy
topband do not tend to use it for working the same stations over and over
again and definitely not for ragchewing.  I enjoy a good CW ragchew, but
would not consider 160m for such a QSO.  I know that I could come on 160m on
Wednesday evenings.  But I have worked over 1000 different US stations on
160m over the years.  My main interest in 160m these days is in working new
DXCC and contesting.  

Incidentally, in one of your posts, you said that you did not call CQ in the
recent Stew Perry for fear (sic) of being called by loads of EU stations.
That struck me as being  rather selective about the type of activity that
you are prepared to tolerate in your log.  Just saying...

73,

Ian G4iiY