"N1KI" wrote in message
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I am not sure if this is appropriate under this subject, but it may
help explain what is going on. A few weeks ago I spent an evening
when 80 meters was open to Europe listening around the lower CW
portion of the band. Several stations were CQ'ing with no callers,
but they would have an instant pile up shortly after I "spotted" them
on the clusters. I suspect many of these had called before ever
hearing the DX station.

Horses are the only animal I know whose body can travel in separate
parts. Unfortunately, we all know which part we most frequently
encounter on the bands....

You know the answer as well as the rest of the DX savvy know. Those dang
clusters are so easy, folks don't tune any more. They just sit and let the
cluster beep a new one.

I was in a contest not too long ago. I worked a BUNCH of stations on 40
meters and it started to slow down a bit. I then suddenly was deluged with
callers. ALL DUPES....every single one DUPES.

So I just went QRT. After the contest was over I checked the spots for
W4NTI....guess what? At the time of the "strange happs" guess what someone
listed on the freq I was on? W4TNI. Yep.

Dan/W4NTI