[CQ-Contest] newbie question about split operating

[Mark Beckwith]

Hi Scott.  You didn't say if he was a domestic station or a DX station, but 
that should not matter actually.  He was saying he was *listening* on *both* 
7.128 and 7.033.  He was listening for other people in the CQWW SSB contest. 
Domestic stations and some DX stations could work him on 7128, and on 7033 
other stations could call him there too.  It's not legal for us to use SSB 
on 7033 here in the USA.  It's not legal for some people in other parts of 
the world to use SSB on 7128.  By doing it this way, he's casting the 
largest net he can.  The reasons you didn't hear anyone calling him on 
either frequency are either because there was nobody calling him or because 
their signals were not strong enough for you to hear them.

So your gut was correct, you just didn't get the satisfaction of hearing all 
the stations involved doing it from start to finish for enough QSOs to get 
your head wrapped around it.

Operating DX Contests split on 40M SSB is a time-honored tradition!  Since 
you're a newbie, you might not know this.  If you felt like devoting several 
days to the contest and driving some distance, you might find a Really Big 
Multiop StationT where the operators could show you all about this and you 
could do it with enough success to get you really hooked.

I know this because it's what happened when I got invited to K6RR in 1974 as 
a teenager (thank you, N6TR, for the invitation).  I spent all night 
watching Pete Grillo do this back in The Glory Days.

Where do you live?  Maybe someone on this list has a Really Big Multiop 
StationT who is looking for operators.  If you start planning now, you could 
have a really great time in the ARRL DX SSB contest in March, or if you also 
like CW, you could have a really great time in a couple weeks during the 
CQWW CW Contest.

73 - Mark, N5OT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott" <scottmonks at hotmail.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 2:48 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] newbie question about split operating


Hi all;
I was enjoying the CQWW-SSB contest and I heard a station working split (I 
think!).  This is the first radio I have owned that would work split and so 
I have never used that technique even though I knew what it was from reading 
about it.  The bands got a little dead on 40m so I figured that I would try 
to understand what this operator was doing and learn something new, but I 
couldn't figure it out--thus the question.

The operator was on 7.128.30 (on my dial) and kept saying (exact words) 
"this frequency and 'seven zero three three'".  Now, I know enough to know 
this means that he was listening on this "other" frequency and transmitting 
on the one I gave, but I couldn't find it.  (Someone might even know who he 
is just from the freq., but I didn't put the call in my log and it is not 
important)
I tried adding 0.7033, 7.033 and 70.33 but I couldn't find anyone calling 
him even by just tuning up and down from this freq and listening.  Since he 
had a really good strong signal I figured that he might be trying to contact 
some DX stations in a country that could transmit SSB at 7.033MHz (CW band) 
and that way keep low-point U.S. stations from calling him, but there was 
nothing on SSB there that I could hear either.

The question is, what was he doing?  By saying only "seven zero three three" 
he lost me-- 'up 7.033' would seem clearer, but that is not what I heard 
during the time I listened to him.

Thanks for any thoughts, and, if I worked you during the contest, thanks for 
being so patient with a nervous newbie!

Scott AA0AA


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