[UK-CONTEST] Alligators & Rabbits in CQWW CW

[Derek Thom]

Hi All,

On several occasions I called, without success, strong stations who were 
CQ'ing seemingly endlessly - and other were calling without success too. 
So I strongly suspect that such stations were calling CQ repeatedly 
simply to keep "their" frequency warm while they were off doing 
something else - perhaps checking other bands or may be visiting the loo 
- as we say in the UK!

73,

Derek G3NKS


In message <000d01c5f4f3$52ff71f0$01527057 at arod>, Alex Allan 
<alex at gm3zbe.plus.com> writes
>Hi all
>I noticed a quite a few stations who don’t even allow enough time for
>their agc to recover between CQ calls.  Being in a temporary location I
>am limited by a really poor antenna and I am sure some of these stations
>would have heard me if only they cottoned on to the idea that you LISTEN
>between calls.  On the other hand, I am quite amazed at the Ears on some
>of the big American stations, I worked several on 20 & 40M with my 20
>Watts when they were marginal and they still heard me!  How do they do
>that?
>Alex
>
>
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-- 
Derek Thom