Football call? Nope. Winning Powerball numbers? I wish … Contest exchange? Yes, and one that made me very happy to hear. When I turned my rig on around noon on Saturday of the CQWW DX Contest SSB weekend, I was greeted by dozens of stations reporting “5-9, 14,” meaning (for non-contesters) that I had a strong signal (5-by-9) into Western Europe (CQ Zone 14).
Now, there’s generally nothing especially unusual about that. In fact, if you look at last month’s Contesting column, you’ll see that Tim,
