<<Bren - we proved it on a few occasions when operating special prefix stations on 7Mhz /3.5 Mhz SSB - our young lady consistently would get far more responses to a CQ in really poor condx than the rest of us would .... got better reports and seldom got asked for repeats....>>
Ahh, OK. I meant real DXpeditions! Hi! It would be interesting to see the figures for the recent YL-only VP8 op.
I think canard68 is right about the reason being historic. Interesting that marine radio comms are on FM..