On Oct 20, 2005, at 6:36 AM, Hal Kennedy wrote:
> Here are a few ideas the more advanced planners are putting forward:
>
> 1. Two operators at good stations. If you have at least a tribander
> and wires for 40/80, consider inviting someone over and using both
> calls. The better operator stays on the high bands during the day and
> the low bands at night using his own call. The other operator, using
> his own call, stays on 40 and 80 during the day and 20 at night. Two
> good scores can come from one station this way and it's perfectly
> legal,
> provided each entrant uses a separate and distinct transmitter.
> Even if
> someone can only drop by for an hour or two - coming on the bands late
> in the contest as 'fresh meat' can produce tremendous rates and a good
> score in a short time. See #2.
This is a good strategy for unlimited category competition -- when
the number of logs isn't constrained to 50.
> 2. A study done at another club shows a good op can get 40-50% of the
> top winning score in about 10 hours. I suspect you can get a very
> helpful score for the club in one hour of operating. ALL SCORES ARE
> WELCOME!!!
Indeed. The first 5-8 hours of SS can be extremely productive.
> 3. There is a concept called HMO - highly motivated operator -
> which is
> discussed in length in the last issue of NCJ. This practice lead the
> NCCC to two SS gavels. HMOs are ops who
> give up a chance at personal glory to aid the club score by
> operating at
> two locations under two calls. Two ops can operate half the
> contest at
> home under their own calls, travel to each other's stations and get on
> the air using a different call. This is legal as long as 'as-yet
> unused' transmitters and amps are turned on for the operation under
> the
> second callsign.
Again, this is a good strategy for the unlimited category competition.
For the Medium category, we'd do well to have more people operate.
> Some of the above may be more than any of us have the motivation
> for - I
> don't know - fortunately, it's not required for us to win as a
> club. As
> Bill points out, SECC was only a few QSOs short of being the top
> mid-sized club last year.
12% higher score would have done it.
> We can win this if each of us who get on
> regularly operates just a little more in SS, and those who have lost
> interest simply flip on the rig for an hour and submit their score.
In my opinion, we want more than a bunch of 1 hour logs. If we have
51 logs, then we move up a category with the big boys who have us way
outgunned.
> See you in SS! FT CW here, and at least PT but hopefully FT in SSB.
I'm working on a spreadsheet to see how we're doing on log slots. I
don't want to jerrymander the log submissions, but I do want to track
it.
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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