Rich, I go both ways as well...when I do any
S & P ... Then if I find a fairly clean frequency,
I will switch to calling CQ.
So you are not alone! Just my 2 cents worth.
Claude
V E 3 W Q
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Ferch <ve3iay@rac.ca>
To: <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 22:07
Subject: [RTTY] Tuning Up or Down?
> Am I the only one who does both? All else being equal, I usually start at
> one end, scan until I run out of signals, then change directions and go
back
> the other way. In addition, I couldn't begin to count how many times I
have
> been moving in one direction and found myself repeatedly losing out to the
> same station S&Ping in the same direction. Whenever that happens, I
usually
> switch directions for a while to get out from under the competition. It's
my
> impression that that happens more often tuning up than down (but my memory
> may be based mostly on CW, not RTTY). Anyway, of course, no-one is likely
to
> be "fishing" for a VE3, so it's not my pattern you need to know about,
it's
> the pattern most commonly used by rare multipliers!
>
> 73,
> Rich VE3IAY
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> RTTY mailing list
> RTTY@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/rtty
>
|