"How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" the guy asked his cab driver. The reply, "Practice. Practice. Practice." I think we all can acknowledge that practice is an important part of learning and improving
Author: "Ernesto Martin Grueneberg" <ernesto.martin.grueneberg@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:37:09 +0100
I´d add: use a CW simulator software. It´s not the same, but it helps Ernesto LU5CW/DL -- Ernesto Grueneberg _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contest
Then do it with qrp to improve your mental strength even more ;-) For getting feet wet in SO2R without risking much on the air: feed MorseRunner in WPX-mode to one ear and the audio of your radio doi
In particular, try MorseRunner by VE3NEA - it is freeware and does a very nice job of simulating real contest conditions, emulating N1MM Logger and other contest software. For pure callsign recogniti
Randy, One other thing that someone can do is observe how others who do well in contest (such as yourself and other HOF guys) conduct themselves when running a pileup or while S&Ping a band. Last wee
Another thing I have found very helpful over the years is to review and compare rate sheets with competitors. For years, K3WW and I have been swapping rate sheets, and sometimes logs, and I've found
The answer is indeed practice, practice, practice. But I'm not talking only about the kind of practice you would expect. I'm talking about Mental Practice and visualisation as well. Unfortunately sin
A tried and proved suggestion when that repeatedly being beaten out by another station also moving up the band in the scenario that W5OV sets forth is to move to the top of activity and move down the
Well, isn't this cool. Here was have (so far) guys like K5ZD, CT1BOH, and K4BAI telling us that they PRACTICE. Does that say anything to you? For a week or more before a CW test, I like to listen to
Randy Thompson K5ZD wrote: "Work RTTY contests to learn SO2R skills. In RTTY, the computer is doing the brain work and the QSOs have a fairly consistent timing and pattern. This frees you to practice
Hi Randy Be sure to get on tonight at 0230 for the NCCC SS practice. We had a bunch on last night and some commented that they found some problems in their setups that will be fixed today. Now is th
With all due respect, Shelby, I think this is incredibly narrow-minded. At its word, your suggestion would bar anyone who is less than perfect from any contest, since we are ALL using contests to get
I also would like the big guns and rare multis to first work the weaker stations during their pileups not to make me wait ;-)) 73 Peter Randy Thompson K5ZD wrote: "Work RTTY contests to learn SO2R sk
Yes. In Thursday night's practice, at least three stations had very bad CW notes. One cleaned his up immediately after I told him about it. The other two, unfortunately, were S&P and I never got a ch
I do QRP a lot. Lots of guys immediately get my callsign, but that's cuz they recognize it or figure it out. I am always very happy when I send an exchange that isn't copied (I'm too weak) and they s
I would also agree, and point out that waiting doesn't always have to do with "the other radio" and an operator that's not ready for "prime time". Maybe the call processing takes some time. Maybe che
I definitely advocate State QSO Parties and smaller/shorter DX contests. Definitely do your own state, where YOU are the "rare" one. Some of the multi state contests such as 7QP and NEQP are also gre
Peter, If you don't want to wait, get louder... To quote Gene Walsh, N2AA: "Loud is Good" _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://list
And don't forget his follow-ups (immortalized in T-shirts): "Louder is better" and "Loudest is BEST". 73, Doug K1DG _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@
I agree with Al completely: QRP stations are much better off sending at normal speed than at slower speed. As Al says, the odds of a static crash or fade taking out part of the transmission are reduc