[IRCNews] The sun isn't helping us during our "vacation"

Sun Mar 29 11:24:15 CDT 2020

Do some contests. It's not unusual to get 600+ in a weekend.

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 12:14 PM Wayne Michael <wrmichael at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Dave,
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> That is very impressive.  I am not sure how you do it.
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> I use every spare moment on the air making contacts and I only managed to
> get 10,013 contacts in 2019.
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> Most of mine are FT8,  none of them “ROBOT” contacts.  For some reason
> believe we use robots in that mode.  I have som FT4, many SSB and maybe 2
> CW.  This year I am on 70 contacts in CW but I don’t know the other
> counts.  Likely not as many.
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> I have an addiction to moving up the list on QRZ most confirmed QSO’s
> list…   I am sitting at about 385/384 usually..  hard to move up from here.
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> Thanks for comparing notes.  It is good to know I am not the only addict.
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> de ac9hp
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> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for
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> *From: *David Spoelstra <davids at mediamachine.com>
> *Sent: *Sunday, March 29, 2020 11:53 AM
> *To: *IRC News <ircnews at indyradioclub.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [IRCNews] The sun isn't helping us during our "vacation"
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> LOL, no, I'm not a member. I did check my log since you were surprised how
> many QSOs I made. Last year I made 12,921 contacts. That's 248/week for 52
> weeks straight.
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> No, I'm not an SKCC member. Sorry.
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> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:12 AM Wayne Michael <wrmichael at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Radio addicts anonymous.
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> Are you a skcc member?  If so I need your # in my log.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Mar 29, 2020, at 10:58 AM, David Spoelstra <davids at mediamachine.com>
> wrote:
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> It's really not that hard when you're on the air 12+ hours a day. I'm
> doing SSB, CW, FT8, FT4, SSTV, and a few RTTY.
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> What's the RAA?
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> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:37 AM Wayne Michael <wrmichael at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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> 673 QSOs --- in a WEEK?
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> It has been a long time since I have seen anything close to that.
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> Want to join me at the next RAA meeting?
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> *From: *David Spoelstra <davids at mediamachine.com>
> *Sent: *Sunday, March 29, 2020 10:36 AM
> *To: *IRC News <ircnews at indyradioclub.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [IRCNews] The sun isn't helping us during our "vacation"
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> Oh, the low sunspots hasn't kept me off the bands. Last week I made 673
> QSOs without a contest going! I just need 10m and 12m to open to finish my
> 9BWAS and 8BDXCC.
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> -David, N9KT
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> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:22 AM Mel Crichton <kj9c at att.net> wrote:
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> so make lemonade!
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> Forty meters has been great to Europe, and that's from here in Montana...
> I even worked DX on 40 SSB this weekend....
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> Eighty and 75 meters are still good, although 160 is getting tough from
> here.... but should still be good in Indiana
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> And 20 meters is about as good as always....
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> You just need to get on and make some noise to put some DX into the log
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> Mel 9C
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> Well, 2020 just set a new record. So far, 78% of the days have had no
> sunspots.
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