> I had occasion to get on for the last 45 minutes of the BARTG
> contest with a new callsign (K7ABC). The new callsign
> generated a sizeable pileup and it was a lot of fun. I had
> AFC OFF and was manually tuning the RIT to peak the loudest
> station in the XY scope and headphones.
>
> My question is: Would I have been better off using AFC to
> sort out the stations in the pileup? Any other thoughts on
> the best way to sort out an on-frequency pileup (not split-frequency)?
My experience has been that very narrow filtering and RIT is more effective
in pileups. Of course this is anecdotal because it is hard to run a true
A/B comparison at the same time. The comparison is not impossible, just
difficult, and not something I typically want to experiment with while
contesting. But it might be worth doing a contest with the objective of
testing these approaches.
73,
Ed - W0YK
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