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<font size="4"><font face="Consolas">Well anothers in the log.<br>
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Now is it just here or this year did 80 meters just suck!<br>
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I went out of my way to actually put up a 80 meter antenna so I
can get counties, and doo better than past years because of not
being able to get on 80 meters.<br>
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40 meters and up is NOT good for an in state contest!<br>
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I kept checking 80, but geez there was like no activity till
like the last two hours of the contest.<br>
And even then it was pitiful.<br>
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40 was the QSO band by far! But this made it be I worked more
states than counties!<br>
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RTTY..... I was looking forward to do some RTTY this year, But
I wonder if everyone was doing the same thing I did?<br>
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Go to the RTTY area and find no RTTY stations so go back to do
more of what you were doing.<br>
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Maybe the old thing,,, if everyone is just listening and not
transmitting,,,, well you know!<br>
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Spotting:<br>
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We can legally do it for all now.<br>
CW it's automatic. Everyone gets spotted.<br>
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Phone? Not so much.<br>
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face="Consolas">I think for the whole contest I was spotted
on phone maybe twice.<br>
And WOW! did it make a difference!!!<br>
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If you take total QSO's divide by air time I averaged 52 Q's
a hour<br>
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I had the typical many many times of short runs of a rate of
over 100/hr.<br>
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But when those spots hit, WOW the rate meter exploded I had
two runs that exceeded 200/hr!!!!<br>
Yes they were very short lived BUT Boy was that FUN!!!!<br>
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Now I wonder if you can make it an incentive to have people
spot all their S&P contacts?<br>
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Actually I know in N1MM+ you can make it automatic. any time
you make a S&P contact it automatically spots the
station for you, you don't even have to do anything.<br>
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To make it an incentive say maybe if you turn this on in
your logger you get an extra 100 bonus points or something?<br>
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Joe WB9SBD / W9ET</font></font></font></font>
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