Fellow Lowbanders and Contesters. . . I'm reminded of some not so new wisdom from operating the contest last night. Big stations, don't forget to listen for the weak signals. It may be well be DX cal
Dave's observation regarding us QRPers being patient as the bigger stations will work hard to pull us through is spot on! PJ2T, for instance, tried VERY hard to work me this morning but no joy and it
Some harder than others. W0SD gave my QRP signal a real good try early in the evening, but couldn't get the exchange. I'll certainly try again tonight. N0TT and N0NI heard me almost right away, but i
TX antenna, never gave me so much as a QRZ for the several dozen times I called, and had his auto CQ set for a very short recycle time. One of the reasons why people do the short CQ recycle is to be
Excellent advice Rick !!! I get tripped up when a CQing station leaves too long a gap between his last callsign and "Test" and I start sending too early. And your QRP tips are very well taken.
Thanks. I stopped sending "test" after my call for exactly this reason. _______________________________________________ Topband reflector - topband@contesting.com
I'll actually disagree with this. Sending "my call" eliminates any confusion about who is being worked. In many situations on 160 - it is very handy. I once got called by W8JI after 10 minutes of CQ
Wellllllllllllllllllllllllll, the problem with not sending SOMETHING after your last call, assuming you are calling CQ, is that one doesn't know whether you are calling someone or calling CQ! Exaampl
well, sending with a J38, with one hand of the vfo dial to keep it from drifting, i try to at least send his call with 5nn/nr, zone, sect, etc. he sending my call and i sending his is the barest mimi
On occasion, this might make sense. The trouble is that I will have already typed in "N6RK" by the time I have figured out that he is sending my call. Is there any easy way to fix this in N1MM other
I think Rick's recommendations go very much in the right direction for a garden variety contest QSO and can be tweaked as appropriate. In the ARRL 160 I was called by several guys who went through th
I think I was misunderstood CQ TEST N6TR N6TR TEST N6RO N6RO 5NN OR N6TR 5NN EBay 73 N6TR Having Ken send N6TR makes it clear he is working me and not someone else I can't hear. _____________________
Actually what Ken sends me is: me: CQ TEST N6RK N6RK Ken: N6RK N6RO me: N6RO 5NN SV ken: 5NN EB or sometimes: 5NN EB KB :-) Ken's extremely strong signal tips me off as to who is calling, so I am use
... Which gives me an opening to air a pet peeve. NEVER when contesting (or DXing) send a "K" after your call sign! Maybe not so bad for a 1x3 or 2x3 (though still possibly confusing with QSB) but i
I completely agree from the perspective of penalties. Lately I have taken to purposely not working stations where there is the possibility of working the wrong station or miscopy. The penalty imposed
Hi Jim, Thanks for the contact in the 160m contest. (I could have used a call from you in the SSB sweepstakes in which I missed a sweep by only UT.) I offer an observation based on this most recent c
IMHO, this depends on what mode you are in. If you are searching and pouncing he already knows your call as he came back and gave you a report. So 5nn and section is perfectly fine here. If you are r
N1MM: You can press ALT + W , or program one of the function keys with {WIPE}. I have F12 set like this, for those not so rare times that the call I entered is so fumble-fingered that using backspace
Using N1MM I use a macro called 'AUTOHOTKEY' at "autohotkey.com' it runs in the background and I have programmed the 'WINDOW' key between the 'CTRL' and "ALT' keys on the left side as a substitute fo
I have NEVER found a CQ repeat interfal less than 2.5 seconds to be adequate to actually LISTEN for callers, and I often use 3 seconds. I strongly agree with the need to keep CQs short. I always have