[SMCARA] ARRL International DX Contest (Phone)

[Scott Parker K7LU]

I'd attribute ON4UN's popularity to having achieved ham-celebrity status (at
least among the 40/80/160 crowd) with his book

http://www.arrl.org/shop/ON4UN-s-Low-Band-DXing/

73 DE K7LU

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:57 PM, <petebutt at comfac.com> wrote:

[...]

> mystique of DX contest operations.  The station with the most stations
> trying to work him (biggest pileups) all day Sunday was ON4UN in Belgium
> on 20 meters.  Where most of the DX stations only had just one or two
> stations calling them at a time, ON4UN consistently had DOZENS of stations
> calling him every time he let up on the microphone.  He got pretty
> irritated at a lot of them for 'jumping the gun' when he was still giving
> a report to other stations.  It took me over three hours of checking back
> occasionally, but I finally worked him so I was happy.  I wonder why
> everyone was calling him when there were a lot of other, more interesting
> locations like Funchal, Madeira Island (near Portugal) that were calling
> and no one was answering them at all???


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