[CQ-Contest] SS from KP4

[Kelly Taylor]

Actually, 

The BEST section to work SS from is SK. A close second is MB.

Both are in the Top 10 of rare sections and have boffo all-day prop to 
all U.S. high-population centers (the skips all land at exactly the right 
spots, slightly more so for SK than MB). Have a string of unanswered CQs 
pointing to the eastern seaboard? No problem, point to California. You're 
likely 20 over 9 in both places. Ten meters is crazy (hey, to a tech-plus 
KC4, VE5 or VE4 is rare DX. You want SS pileups? You'll get SS pileups! 
And you'll be 40 over 9, even at low power.)

Sure, it's a little discouraging when Saturday you work a W1 on 75 and 
he's 300 ahead of you. But then on Sunday, when his prop has petered out 
and he's worked almost all he's gonna on 75, you're still running at 150+ 
an hour. VE4GV's success is solely because he's a good op.

The only advantage to KP4, as I see it, is if the bands peter out, you 
can grab a cuba libre and stretch out on the sand. And that's gotta be 
worth a dB or two.

-- 
73, kelly
VE4XT
ve4xt at mts.net

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