Tune until it doesn’t sound like Donald Duck
Easy
Ria
N2RJ
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 3:46 PM <pwhelton@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Sorry for the novice question but .. I do a lot of CW. I participate in CW
> contests and can usually survive. Last night I thought I'd give the CQWW
> 160 SSB contest a shot. Now I know why I don't participate in a lot of SSB
> contests. I had a heck of a time trying to tune stations in. Either I was
> too high or too low. The QSB didn't help matters either.
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> I don't have a very good antenna setup on 160 so it behooves me to be right
> on frequency in order to make the contact. I made about 140 CW contacts
> during the CQWW CW contest but SSB is a different animal. Is there a
> secret
> to tuning SSB so that it's intelligible?
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> Sorry for the dumb question but I wouldn't mind making a couple of SSB
> contacts on 160. After that I guarantee you I won't be doing much SSB
> work.
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> Regards,
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> Pat - KZ5J
>
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