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Re:SS CW 2016 - 2016/11/07 11:01
Salut,
I am not at home now, can't print out the summary.
Station : .., "B", VE2QA, 09, QC
I did find about 4-5 hrs on Sunday between 12pm and 4pm to participate in ARRL SSCW.
All QSOs on 14MHz band, high power. Just plugged in my ZS6BKW dipole, only some QSOs on 3 el yagi at the end of the day when propagation started to die. Or activity, for that matter.
Total QSOs ~ 308.
The interest was to run when there are multiple callers. Maybe because VE2 is a new section for many in US, between 12:30 and till about 4 pm there was a good traffic.
I started as a warm up S&P at about 12pm, but the rate was disappointing, even with the number of running station pretty high.
Few thing seem to be special for this contest:
1. Veeeery long exchange. That does not help with the rate, and it kills in S&P.
2. Stations adding in their reply my callsign and "NR" before actual exchange. It is long as is, people  .
3. Callers that call once (3 stations at the same time), then sit a long pause before calling again. Again at the same time. Hard to break up that deadlock. (maybe happens in other contests too).
4. Stations from skip zone. I can get the call sign, but with the exchange like this, it is really a waste of time.
But at the end of the day, this seems to be a very good contest if you want to practice your run skill for us in QC.
73,
Vlad VA2TTA
VE2QA
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