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August 7th 05, 01:40 AM
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John Smith wrote:
Dee: Nope, never have seen all the bandwidths in as much use as back during the 70's and early 80's, did you have a ticket back then? My gawd, those oldtimers have forgotten what a real "pileup" means! Congestion worse than imagined in my worst nightmare! It's a nice story. It is a pity that t'ain't true. I've run pileups spanning five to seven KHz for as long as six hours at a time, working 200-300 CW QSOs per hour. That happened as recently as 2000. DXing and contesting aren't games about twenty and thirty years ago, they're about what you've done lately. Contest scores have gotten bigger. The top scorers work more stations than were worked two or three decades ago. There are domestic scores now which top the world high scores of that many years ago. Dave K8MN |
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#2
August 7th 05, 01:53 AM
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Dave:
A useful figure here would be the percentage of hams who contest... Dee seems to think all 600,000 (and yes, I don't think that figure is even close to correct) do... John On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:40:39 +0000, Dave Heil wrote: John Smith wrote: Dee: Nope, never have seen all the bandwidths in as much use as back during the 70's and early 80's, did you have a ticket back then? My gawd, those oldtimers have forgotten what a real "pileup" means! Congestion worse than imagined in my worst nightmare! It's a nice story. It is a pity that t'ain't true. I've run pileups spanning five to seven KHz for as long as six hours at a time, working 200-300 CW QSOs per hour. That happened as recently as 2000. DXing and contesting aren't games about twenty and thirty years ago, they're about what you've done lately. Contest scores have gotten bigger. The top scorers work more stations than were worked two or three decades ago. There are domestic scores now which top the world high scores of that many years ago. Dave K8MN |
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#3
August 7th 05, 06:01 AM
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"John Smith" wrote in message news  Dave: A useful figure here would be the percentage of hams who contest... Dee seems to think all 600,000 (and yes, I don't think that figure is even close to correct) do... John I have never implied that such a thing is true or that I think it. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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#4
August 7th 05, 06:04 AM
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Dee:
Darn girl, you caught me exaggerating! Again! grin John "Dee Flint" wrote in message ... "John Smith" wrote in message news Dave: A useful figure here would be the percentage of hams who contest... Dee seems to think all 600,000 (and yes, I don't think that figure is even close to correct) do... John I have never implied that such a thing is true or that I think it. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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#5
August 8th 05, 03:55 AM
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John Smith wrote:
Dave: A useful figure here would be the percentage of hams who contest... Dee seems to think all 600,000 (and yes, I don't think that figure is even close to correct) do... How else am I gonna get my "Worked All Hams" award, then? :-) |
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August 8th 05, 04:04 AM
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Robert:
HUH? attempting-to-keep-a-straight-face John On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:55:23 +0000, robert casey wrote: John Smith wrote: Dave: A useful figure here would be the percentage of hams who contest... Dee seems to think all 600,000 (and yes, I don't think that figure is even close to correct) do... How else am I gonna get my "Worked All Hams" award, then? :-) |
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#7
August 8th 05, 05:59 AM
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John Smith wrote:
Robert: HUH? attempting-to-keep-a-straight-face John How else am I gonna get my "Worked All Hams" award, then? :-) To get the "Worked All Hams" award one has to work each and every licensed ham in the USA. All 600 thousand of them. Which means they all must be active... :-) |
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#8
August 8th 05, 06:25 AM
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Robert:
You may have to enlist Sylvia Brownes' help, I think (my belief, opinion) is that some of those hams still on the books have entered the "here after." Propagation into that area is rare at best, and most reports are highly questionable... Psychic communications is still in its' infancy, highly sporadic successes to this date, equipment is sparse... don't prepare a spot on the wall for that award, yet... grin John On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 04:59:33 +0000, robert casey wrote: John Smith wrote: Robert: HUH? attempting-to-keep-a-straight-face John How else am I gonna get my "Worked All Hams" award, then? :-) To get the "Worked All Hams" award one has to work each and every licensed ham in the USA. All 600 thousand of them. Which means they all must be active... :-) |
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#9
August 7th 05, 06:00 AM
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"Dave Heil" wrote in message ink.net... John Smith wrote: Dee: Nope, never have seen all the bandwidths in as much use as back during the 70's and early 80's, did you have a ticket back then? My gawd, those oldtimers have forgotten what a real "pileup" means! Congestion worse than imagined in my worst nightmare! It's a nice story. It is a pity that t'ain't true. I've run pileups spanning five to seven KHz for as long as six hours at a time, working 200-300 CW QSOs per hour. That happened as recently as 2000. DXing and contesting aren't games about twenty and thirty years ago, they're about what you've done lately. Contest scores have gotten bigger. The top scorers work more stations than were worked two or three decades ago. There are domestic scores now which top the world high scores of that many years ago. Dave K8MN Well I can attest to the fact that it takes some real finesse and staying power to snag the rare DX when you are only running 100 watts into a G5RV. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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#10
August 8th 05, 03:40 PM
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Dave Heil wrote:
John Smith wrote: Dee: Nope, never have seen all the bandwidths in as much use as back during the 70's and early 80's, did you have a ticket back then? My gawd, those oldtimers have forgotten what a real "pileup" means! Congestion worse than imagined in my worst nightmare! It's a nice story. It is a pity that t'ain't true. I've run pileups spanning five to seven KHz for as long as six hours at a time, working 200-300 CW QSOs per hour. That happened as recently as 2000. DXing and contesting aren't games about twenty and thirty years ago, they're about what you've done lately. Contest scores have gotten bigger. The top scorers work more stations than were worked two or three decades ago. There are domestic scores now which top the world high scores of that many years ago. That has been my experience too Dave. Must be an alternate universe where this other stuff is going on.... - Mike KB3EIA - |
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