[CQ-Contest] Contesting tips?

[Julius Fazekas]

Rick,

Subscribe to the NCJ (National Contest Journal) and try and find back issues. Check the various big contest club websites, many have basic resources available to the contesting community at large (one example): http://www.yccc.org/Scuttlebutt/index.htm

Do a web search for contest presentations from the Dayton Hamfest, many can be found online.

I don't think there is a contest handbook, but hey that's not a bad idea.

Can't help you with SSB, my knowledge of contesting in that mode is somewhat antiquated ;o)

Cheers,

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

Tennessee Contest Group
TnQP http://www.tnqp.org/

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--- On Mon, 10/6/08, Rick Kiessig <kiessig at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Rick Kiessig <kiessig at gmail.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Contesting tips?
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 8:51 PM
> Does anyone know of a good source of tips for contesting
> strategies?  It's
> still new to me, so I'm trying to work my way up the
> learning curve (on the
> SSB side).
> 
>  
> 
> I'm looking for things like details on how to best make
> use of a second VFO,
> strategies for switching between running and S&P,
> if/how/when to pick up
> QSOs for stations not participating in the contest (when
> allowed, of
> course), how to best leverage spots, when to submit a spot
> and when not to,
> pileup management (on both sides), radio management
> (transmit bandwidth,
> memories, voice recording, etc), and so on.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rick, ZL2HAM
> 
>  
> 
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