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ham radio contesting - tommag - 03-30-2024
This weekend is the cq ww wpx contest. I'm not a contester but like to use them to put a few new countries in my logbook.
The speed of these contesters amazes me. One station in Belarus has 8000 contacts in 15 hours! That's in the neighborhood of a contact every 7 seconds!
Now that I think about it, that was a multi operator contest station. They're probably working several different bands simultaneously.
RE: ham radio contesting - specops56 - 03-30-2024
I'm like you, I only use contests to put more contacts in my logbook and hopefully more QSL cards on my wall.
Terry
RE: ham radio contesting - tommag - 03-30-2024
It's funny how propagation changes. For the past couple of years the South Pacific was like dialing the phone from here. Now, when I point my antenna that way I get nothing south of Japan and Hawaii, even during a contest. I used to struggle with Europe but now get a lot of contacts in Europe and the baltics.
RE: ham radio contesting - Snake46 - 03-30-2024
Rack up another for climate change🙄 Is that still the woke accepted terminology?