Are you sure you guys were operating the ARRL 10 meter contest? Some USA guys were putting up a decent number of stations worked despite mediocre band conditions..

I got home from work at 6:15 PM local time and went QRV just as the band started to close. Darn work obligations. Used out club callsign of KH0W. I must have been "
fresh meat" because I had a decent run going on until almost 7 PM when the band died. Worked 127 stations on CW in 48 minutes. Mostly JA's with a smattering of HS, VR2, HL, DU, BY, ZL & BV. The JA's were loud, really loud. Unfortunately my N1MM log got corrupted so I submitted it as a Checklog. I've had this problem a few times before.
Thanks to the fantastic operating habits of the JA's it's easy to maintain a good rate. In you are into contesting you really owe it to yourself to come to the Pacific/Asia area & run the JA's. It's a complete blast due to their absolute respect for other operators. For example...........A
roaring JA pileup on CW is going on & I can only pick out the partial callsign of
JG3. So I send
JG3 and absolutely, equivalently the
ENTIRE pileup stops and the only guy now sending his call is the JG3 station. I'm kinda jaded to this now after it happend for about the 300th time. If the Europeans (and some USA stations) subscribed to this style of operating peoples hourly rates would go thru the roof.
Tom KH0/KC0W (KH0W)