[South Florida DX Association] BS7H Poll Response

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Well I got quite a few responses and in general the reports echoed my  
observations.  
 
But this morning was different as they were very good copy on 20 CW and on  
SSB.  The spread on CW was from about 027 to as high as 063.  Not  good.  
 
Also 40m cw was pretty good.  Very workable, but pile-up horrendous  and I 
DID NOT succeed (yet).  Hope that band conditions will continue to  improve.   
 
Some reports said the a strong 20m station on the 30th was worked, but  there 
is some speculation it was a pirate.  See the following excerpt from  Charlie 
K4VUD, also HS0ZCW
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The first night, that they were on 20 cw,  there was another station within a
few cycles of same freq working at  slightly different speed the stations
just as if it was BS7H. That is , both  stations were wroking the pile with
one being a fake.  BS7H comes in  here vy loud and for a long time, but the
other station musta been near  because his prop. was the same into my HS
listening post.

I hv never  hrd such a clever fake on CW and he was working about as many as
the real  BS7H.  Vy sad and I guess about half of the guys who think they
worked  the real worked instead the fake.

Charles Harpole  HS0ZCW
k4vud at hotmail.com
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Again thanks for all the responses,  hearing about every one's poor results 
actually was encouraging, as it could not  get much worse - hopefully we can 
all brag about working them at the up coming  DX dinner.

Regards,
Norm W4QN





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