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  • Huge Opening Last Weekend

    From Al Kaiser@1:142/926 to All on Wednesday, November 03, 2021 10:11:48
    The bands were wide open for the CQWW SSB Contest Last weekend.

    It looks like the solar conditions are picking up. Been working a lot of
    12 meter FT8 looking for new countries too.


    Looks like we can expect the same for the CQWW CW Contest the end of the
    month and also for the WAE RTTY Contest in a week.


    Al Kaiser n1api@cox.net <=-

    Cheers!

    Al Kaiser - Meriden, CT, 03-Nov-2021 at 10:12.
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to Al Kaiser on Wednesday, November 03, 2021 08:20:00
    Al,

    The bands were wide open for the CQWW SSB Contest Last weekend.

    It looks like the solar conditions are picking up. Been working a lot
    of 12 meter FT8 looking for new countries too.

    Looks like we can expect the same for the CQWW CW Contest the end of
    the month and also for the WAE RTTY Contest in a week.

    I talked to several hams, and they said that with all the contesters...
    many tuning up, etc. on top of others...it was almost impossible to do
    nets, etc. -- unless you were on the WARC bands.

    This weekend is the ARRL CW Sweepstakes, with the Phone Sweepstakes in
    2 weeks.

    Contesting never appealed to me, though. Yet, with ham radio, there's something in it for everybody. My niches are traffic nets, VE Testing,
    and doing a forum for new hams.

    Daryl, WX4QZ

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Al Kaiser on Monday, November 08, 2021 09:30:34
    Hello Al,

    Wednesday November 03 2021 10:11, you wrote to All:

    Looks like we can expect the same for the CQWW CW Contest the end of
    the month and also for the WAE RTTY Contest in a week.

    Ah, I wish I was back on the air right now...

    73 DE KS4TD,
    Sean

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