I don’t know exactly why I’m doing this, but I’m trying to drum up QSOs on 40m in the Maryland/DC QSO Party. And, boy, are they few and far between. At times, there have been more out-of-state stations calling CQ MDQP than Maryland stations.
And if that weren’t bad enough, there’s some Canadian SSB net on 7063.5, just 3.5 kHz up from the nominal contest frequency. Sounds like most of them are running a full gallon (or maybe a full four liters because they’re in Canada), because some of them are splattering quite a bit.
I don’t know why there are so few stations on. Maybe Hurricane Charlie is keeping some of them off the air. Maybe they’re all working the European CW contest. I did hear one station down around 7030 giving the exchange for both contests. Maybe because it’s a Saturday summer evening. Who knows?
There is one guy–K4MUT–who is making this contest more fun. He’s mobile, and out of the 19 contacts I have so far, he’s been 7 of them, all in different counties, of course. Thanks, Bob!
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