Hello all,
Things are a bit different, here on the East coast. Everything that has been
said is right on the money. 20m is the money band during daylight; now that
15m and 10m are a figment of my imagination. I know it is time to move to
40m when most of my replies to CQ are from W6 & W7 and the simple TH6DXX at
50feet needs to be pointed northwest instead of due west. My first three
hours were about 300 qsos of just running. Nothing special here in the way
of an antenna. I never used the 4el monobander at 92 feet!
40 meters is slow to run until hour number 5 when more of the midwest comes
through; but when a run starts, the higher rates are possible until the west
coast arrives around 0100z. I usually finish on 80m and 160m around 0400z.
Note...very little off time is taken because the last 2 hours are usuall
non-productive.
Carol
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Lott" <lottsphoto@gmail.com>
To: "RT Clay" <rt_clay@bellsouth.net>
Cc: "cq-contest@contesting.com" <CQ-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How to start a run
Tim,
You got lots of great feedback
and some from some really talented OPS like Tor N4OGW and Steve N2IC
both are very experienced contest ops, as are a couple of the others that
posted.....
I will add.....
Listen to those that do manage to have good runs
listen to their rate, their pace, their choice of phonetics
and even their tone or inflection of voice when on phone
Then try it out and do not get discouraged
even N0AX well known Ward Silver struggled to get some run rates
for a bit last night on 40m, but his persistence usually pays off
Bottom line is have fun and show that you are having fun in your voice
fun is a contagious thing, and I will underline something mentioned
earlier
make sure your audio is clean, turning down the mic gain might actually be
better
the only way to know is to listen to your transmitted signal
for your rig you will need to use another receiver (be careful you don't
fry the front end, no antenna on the second rig and RF gain backed way
down) or ask someone to give you some honest audio reports
Join a contest club, learning and sharing what you know is also fun and
contagious !
Cheers!
steve
KG5VK
http://www.KG5VK.com
My Ham Radio Friends
On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 8:17 AM, RT Clay <rt_clay@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Sunday, August 21, 2016 4:36 AM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > Turn up the wick.
>
Depending on where you live and the band, that might not help! For
example, 1500 W and 6/6 is not enough to run stations on 15M during
Sweepstakes from my area of the country. There is just too big of a skip
zone covering most of the eastern US on the high bands.
From OH for domestic contests, 80M will usually be best followed by 40M.
But even 40M will go long during winter nights (get on 40 early to work
close in states). 15 and 10 will only be runnable if there is sporadic E
propagation in the summertime contests.
Tor
N4OGW
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