Colin,

In this contest it's Canada and the USA against the rest of the world. 
Maybe that's the way it should be, eh?

Congrats on the nice DX.

73, Steve KW3A
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 5:17 PM
Subject: dx ssb contest


> Hey all:
> Ok, i think this is the dx ssb contest weekend....it is some contest 
> anyway.
> Just wanted to mention that I have pretty fair propigation into JA land, 
> and
> into all of south america on 15 and 20 from alberta.
> Managed to make contact with a mexican station using my 20M dipole on 15
> with an 8 to 1 swr...I'm guessing he must have had good ears.
> Also worked a J A on 20, which is quite odd for the middle of the 
> afternoon
> and the sub par antenna i'm using on 20
> I'm not big into contesting, and most of the US stations didn't want any
> canadians for the contest so I was a bit limited to hunting for other dx,
> though the US can be considered dx from here since it is another country 
> and
> all.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
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