[CQ-Contest] Another gratuitous SS-CW trick

[Steve London]

> B4 the SS phone weekend I populate a "mental bandmap" with the Sunday
> QTR/QRG of several state traffic nets (WY/KS/ND/MT/DE) so that if these
> mults are absent from my log at noon Sunday, I possibly snag a cooperative
> traffic-handler to fill a hole in my sweep.  In other words, I go into the
> contest knowing where a certain mult is likely available.  How is this
> conceptually different than building a bandmap of the "placeholders with
> desireable mults" in the hour preceeding the opening bell?
>

This is very different.  When you are scoping out traffic nets, you have no
idea whether a specific individual will be there, who will be receptive to
your contest advances.   Loading up a bandmap before the contest is akin to
reaching into the pond, grabbing a docile fish, and poking it onto the hook.
All you have to do is yank the line at the starting time, and you have your
trophy fish.

73,
Steve London, N2IC