SO2R in SS... was [CQ-Contest] Pileup Management

[Pete Smith]

At 07:31 AM 11/6/02 -0500, Cqtestk4xs at aol.com wrote:
>...
>The main reason it is an SO2R contest is that you start to run out of guys
>the second day.  In the last SSB SS my second radio was good for around
>100-150 qsos.  Maybe I would have worked them anyway.  Who knows.  I
>certainly am not talented enough on Saturday when I am running 120 per hour
>to use a second radio, but it sure makes a big difference on Sunday.

Or maybe to put it another way, the way to make SS Sundays relatively 
productive and enjoyable is to have one radio running at all times and then 
S&P like crazy, because there are people who only come on to call CQ, and 
others who only come on to S&P.  I didn't follow my own advice on Sunday 
afternoon, and the score shows it.

Then there are all the cases of serendipitous missing each other that go 
on.  For example K7BG was my 1080; I was his 1175.  I had been really 
sweating MT until just shortly before because we'd obviously been on 
different bands or CQing at the same times or somethin'.


73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower