Dave:

The contest is the CQ WPX (or worked all prefixes) contest.

It is a world-wide SSB contest that has been  occurring all week-end on the
typical HF contest bands--10 through 160.

The number you are hearing is the sequential serial number that you give
each contact to mark his/her place in your log.

In other words, if I was your first contact, you'd give me a serial number
of 001.  If you were my 150th contact, the serial number I would give you
back for me would be 150.

I hope this helps, and if you can get on the air to play a bit in the
contest, have fun.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ


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Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2014 1:11 PM
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Subject: contest?

Hi y=E2=80=99all:

What contest is taking place right now, particularly on 10 Meters, =
exchange seems to be callsign, signal report, and some kind of number.

The first items are self ebident, but what does this number represent?

73,



David S. Pearson-wa4dsp