[CQ-Contest] contesting tips

[Alfred J. Frugoli (KE1FO)]

IMHO, much of contesting is personal and based on your own experience of =
what works best.  I think the best contesting tip is get your butt in the=
 chair and keep it there.  Practice, practice, practice (my gosh, I sound=
 like my mother talking about piano lessons!).

73 de Al, KE1FO

----- Original Message -----
From: John Laney
Sent: 1/30/2004 3:05:22 PM
To: SHanlon at dnr.state.md.us
Cc: CQ-Contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] contesting tips

> Steve:
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> I don't know the source of your information that tuning from the top=20
> down is better for USB and the reverse on LSB.  Maybe my ears are=20
> different from that person's, but I think it is much easier to tune fro=
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> the bottom up on USB and from the top down on LSB.  That is because you=
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> hear intelligible sound from the station first as you approach it.  You=
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> are tuning first to the intelligible sideband.  If you tune as your=20
> correspondent suggests, you hear nothing but garble until you are right=
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> on the spot where the station can be understood.  Most of the time you=20
> will tune past that spot and have to reverse and tune back.  You=20
> shouldn't have that problem if you tune toward the desired SSB and keep=
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> tuning until the voice sounds clear.
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> Just my experience of almost 50 years (even though some will tell you=20
> that they were all on CW, but that would be perhaps an exaggeration).
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> 73,
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> John.
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