[CQ-Contest] newbie question about split operating

[Scott]

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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