What is the feeling on working cross mode in contests when the rules permit it? Such as answering a CW CQ on SSB, where, of course, the CW CQ occurs in the phone portion of the band. I do not have a
Mike, Cross mode contacts are perfectly fine, and are in fact quite common. As far as I know they are permitted in just about all of the various VHF contests that there are. I usually end up making a
In VHF Contesting cross mode contacts are quite common. Particularly as a "weak" rover station, I'll go back to the big SSB stations with CW. Nearly all of them will be happy to work you cross mode.
It happens a few times a contest on 6M to me. I find it easier to just answer on SSB. After all, the calling station has copied you on SSB and has decided that he is weak enough that he has to use CW
Yes indeed. Many times I'll hear someone calling CQ in a contest on SSB and I'll answer on SSB. If he doesn't hear me, I'll call on CW. Sometimes the other station will answer on CW and sometimes on
Mike, Interesting question! MY PET PEEVE! When I am on CW in a contest, I can not copy an SSB station calling me. All it is is interference from the opposite side band at that point. My receiver is t
I usually run QRP portable in contests. I assume that the other station I'm hearing is not QRP (unless I know otherwise - I know most of the people in this area who are apt to run QRP). So if I hear
If it because of a brief enhancement or something I might not ever hear the other station again when it moves to phone or whatever. I try to make the QSO now. 73, Mike K9NW _________________________
-- Mike Tessmer <mike.tessmer@hillmangroup.com> wrote: Yes indeed. One of the things I've learned in VHF conesting over the years is to try and work somebody as soon as you first hear them. All too o