[UK-CONTEST] AFS YESTERDAY

[Mark Marsden]

Hi Quin

That's the well known honey-pot effect. It happens in all contests and on all bands. 

What happens is that S&P stations stop tuning when they hear a QSO in progress, and are encouraged to call. 
When they hear a lonely weak CQ, there is doubt whether they can work it, and they tune on.

It is interesting that the waves are about every five minutes. Maybe that says a lot about how long it takes to sweep the band.

73, Mark G4AXX 


-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of QUENTIN COLLIER
Sent: 12 January 2009 10:45
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] AFS YESTERDAY

Operating G4ALE from the QTH of the late Harry G3SBV in AFS yesterday, I noticed an effect that I have observed before. This was the fact that, after the initial flurry at the start, QSOs seemed to come in waves......one could go for significant periods (in one case up to 5 minutes) with no takers, and then it would "fire up" again, followed later by the same cycle of events. I wonder if anybody else noticed this, and if so whether there are any views on whether this is simply fluctuations in conditions, or whether it reflects some kind of "swarm behaviour" in stations doing S&P?

73,




Quin G3WRR
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