You just missed the NAQP SSB contest last week. The next major SSB pileup
contest will be the CQ Worldwide DX Contest, October 26-27. The ARRL
Sweepstakes, SSB, is November 15-17.
You shouldn't dismiss FT8/FT4 contests. During the World Wide Digi DX
Contest August 30-31, there will be some good pileups for ops who actually
know how to do FT8/FT4. It's challenging when there are three active QSOs
at the same time. How do you interleave the responses without losing
someone? It's simple with CW and SSB—you take them one at a time, expecting
the others to wait. With FTn, you might have multiple QSOs actually active
at the same time. If you don't reply to each one quickly, they move on to
someone else. There is no time for sleeping if you are a skilled op. Ops
who only do S&P might get sleepy trying to break pileups.
Contest ebulliently,
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Stan, K4SBZ
On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM Alan Higbie <alan.higbie@gmail.com> wrote:
> Our club has been asked by convention organizers to arrange pileup contests
> for attendees.
>
> With stalwart assistance from Chuck, NO5W, we have the the CW pileup
> contest covered.
>
> *But still need to get some leads for an SSB pileup contest. *
> *Please share anything you might know about this.*
>
> (We probably couldn’t do an FT8 pileup contest . . . because of the
> necessary sleeping arrangements) /s
>
> 73, Alan K0AV
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