[CQ-Contest] CW versus SSB in 160 Contests

[Bill Coleman]

On 8/17/01 6:29 AM, Bill Tippett at btippett at alum.mit.edu wrote:

>        CW rules on 160!...but you knew that didn't you?  

I think the disparity in scores is more easily explained by the diversity 
of DX available on CW that isn't present for SSB.

For example, you can work Japan on CW, but not on SSB, since the Japanese 
don't have an SSB allocation on 160m.

Of course, let's not dismiss the greater spectral efficiency of CW, which 
trades off communication speed (bps) for narrower bandwidth. It's a lot 
easier to dig out a weak, narrow bandwidth signal at low speed than a 
wide bandwidth signal at higher speed. Particularly in the presence of 
noise sources typical of 160m.

Now, if we could just get as many PSK31 operators on 160m as CW ops, the 
tables would turn easily....

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901


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