The excellent
VOACAP Online shows the specific route forecast
conditions.... this contact is just about predicted
DX Diary:
feeding time for the piranhas
Well, if you want an example of what's wrong with
the hobby, this is a good place to start.
We have to devise a better way of dealing with
this mayhem pileups! The more frustrated the operators get, the
more they will resort to illegal power. If only there was a
"take a number" scheme like queuing at the deli counter...
Most of the stations calling will
not be able to hear other stations calling, or indeed how
tedious they sound to the rest of us. CU3EJ, SV4???/P and IS0FWY, I might
mean you... but I have no doubt Italians are just as bored with
Brits shouting at them. Listen at 23:15 to get a particularly
charming example.
Although the Brits are limited to a legal maximum of 400W - and
that seems to be where most South and Central European stations
start.....