[Elecraft] VP6DX scraping the bottom

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

I see, well CW not done here at all yet!

Not good operating on their part if they don't slow down. Most Dxpeditions
do slow down and take it easier towards the end, for those who may not have
a 'Big Gun'.

Also (forgive me if I'm teaching you to suck eggs), don't rely upon the
Dxcluster, because by the time it gets there, there will be 100s trying to
talk to them. You need to search and pounce. It took me about 20 mins when I
did it.


On 27/02/2008 13:18, "Mike Willis" <m.j.willis at rl.ac.uk> sent:

> David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:
>> I managed on 80m SSB at 07:25z the other day. Ok is was 120w, but I got a
>> good 59, so I think 10 might have made it.
>>   
> I tried, for an hour. There was simply no chance against all the
> stronger, mainly Southern Europeans trying for their 3rd or 4th band
> contact. When they did come up a bit stronger and some of the Eastern EU
> faded, they went off to 7.29MHz to work the USA. All this was SSB.  CW
> was not an option for me as unfortunately, VP6DX never seemed to slow
> down in their CW for those of us limited in ability to around 15WPM. I
> can see why as they make more contacts that way, but the speed they were
> going it was nearly impossible for me to tell what was going on, when to
> call etc.
> 
> Mike

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