[CQ-Contest] How to start a run

[Carol Richards]

Hello all,

Things are a bit different, here on the East coast. Everything that has been 
said is right on the money. 20m is the money band during daylight; now that 
15m and 10m are a figment of my imagination. I know it is time to move to 
40m when most of my replies to CQ are from W6 & W7 and the simple TH6DXX at 
50feet needs to be pointed northwest instead of due west. My first three 
hours were about 300 qsos of just running. Nothing special here in the way 
of an antenna. I never used the 4el monobander at 92 feet!

40 meters is slow to run until hour number 5 when more of the midwest comes 
through; but when a run starts, the higher rates are possible until the west 
coast arrives around 0100z. I usually finish on 80m and 160m around  0400z. 
Note...very little off time is taken because the last 2 hours are usuall 
non-productive.



Carol
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Lott" <lottsphoto at gmail.com>
To: "RT Clay" <rt_clay at bellsouth.net>
Cc: "cq-contest at contesting.com" <CQ-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How to start a run


> Tim,
>
> You got lots of great feedback
> and some from some really talented OPS like Tor N4OGW and Steve N2IC
> both are very experienced contest ops,  as are a couple of the others that
> posted.....
>
> I will add.....
>
> Listen to those that do manage to have good runs
> listen to their rate, their pace, their choice of phonetics
> and even their tone or inflection of voice when on phone
>
> Then try it out and do not get discouraged
> even N0AX well known Ward Silver struggled to get some run rates
> for a bit last night on 40m, but his persistence usually pays off
>
> Bottom line is have fun and show that you are having fun in your voice
> fun is a contagious thing, and I will underline something mentioned 
> earlier
> make sure your audio is clean, turning down the mic gain might actually be
> better
> the only way to know is to listen to your transmitted signal
> for your rig you will need to use another receiver (be careful you don't
> fry the front end, no antenna on the second rig and RF gain backed way
> down) or ask someone to give you some honest audio reports
>
> Join a contest club, learning and sharing what you know is also fun and
> contagious !
>
> Cheers!
> steve
> KG5VK
>
>
>
>
> http://www.KG5VK.com
> My Ham Radio Friends
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 8:17 AM, RT Clay <rt_clay at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Sunday, August 21, 2016 4:36 AM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > Turn up the wick.
>> >
>>
>>
>> Depending on where you live and the band, that might not help! For
>> example, 1500 W and 6/6 is not enough to run stations on 15M during
>> Sweepstakes from my area of the country. There is just too big of a skip
>> zone covering most of the eastern US on the high bands.
>>
>>
>> From OH for domestic contests, 80M will usually be best followed by 40M.
>> But even 40M will go long during winter nights (get on 40 early to work
>> close in states). 15 and 10 will only be runnable if there is sporadic E
>> propagation in the summertime contests.
>>
>>
>> Tor
>> N4OGW
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