[Great-River-DX] FW: [DX-CHAT] tuning or memories?

[Arlyce and Mike Nowack]

All,

I can definitely confirm that the op this morning was saying one thing and
doing another, at least part of the time.  I became suspicious when several
times I would hear him answer a call, give a report and immediately
acknowledge several subsequent stations so fast in succession that they all
had to be calling on the same frequency.  There was not enough time in
between contacts for him to tune a VFO or puch a button to another preset
frequency and then listen for a new call.  In these instances, in tuning the
pile up I could not find the calling stations within the window announced as
the listening area.  I finally tried listening, searching, far out of the
announced listening area and found him working stations on who were calling
on 14252 when he had repeatedly announced 14200-14230 as the listening
range.  I guess that is one way to manage the huge pile he had.  If you
weren't astute enough to figure this out, you weren't going to work him.  I
don't know what other tricks that they might be using but I personally
observed this one.  That was the transmit frequency Arlyce and I both used
to nab him.  Others were finding him there as well and I would guess he
would move to another unannounced frequency when the old one got congested.
Perhaps he just listened up high for someone calling in the blind outside
designated 14200-14230 and that became the next 'secret' frequency.

I hope this helps and everyone gets him.  Bands are stinko tonight, hope
they improve again in the early morning.

Go get 'em!

Mike NA9Q


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[mailto:great-river-dx-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Cliff Ahrens
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:44 PM
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Subject: [Great-River-DX] FW: [DX-CHAT] tuning or memories?

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Some more good info. on the BS7 split patterns this morning.  Of course
tomorrow could be a different op, and different patterns.

Cliff

-----Original Message-----
From: kf2ti at njdxa.org [mailto:kf2ti at njdxa.org] On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:58 AM
To: dx-chat at njdxa.org
Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] tuning or memories?

--- harris_ruben <formsmaven at comcast.net> wrote:

> The BS7H spots on 20 fone seem to indicate that this morning's op was 
> just punching memory freqs and doing little tuning. Of course, that's 
> his option.

Yes it is.

When he started working North America (between 1045 and 1100), he was
listening ONLY on two frequencies, 14200 and 14205 (and announced as such).
Then listening between those freqs, then 200-210 and then up to 220 then up
to 230.

Of course, if the rate is good (a good rate on phone is 300-400/hour), it
doesn't matter where he listens, as long as enough callers can find that
frequency.  Too many or two few callers and the rate goes down.

73 - Jim AD1C


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