[CQ-Contest] Your DX Spots during the ARRL SSB DX Contest

[Kevan Nason]

Hi Scott,



You wrote: “But how, exactly, is a little pistol to procure a run frequency
when every open band is packed wall to wall, and stacked three deep, with
big guns calling CQ?”



Don’t know if you’re seriously asking, but I’ll answer. I’m not an expert
and most of my solutions, like this one, come from reading the blogs,
advice, and contest presentations of good operators out there.  So… This
isn’t original, but the short answer is to think of yourself as a big
pistol. Tighten up your filters, find a small hole in the noise and just go
for it. You will both win and lose some frequency fights so be prepared to
move. If you have to, just find another hole and start over.



You’ve a much better station than I.  An amp, two beams, a fairly high
rotatable dipole, a shunt fed tower on 80. You ought to be able to do it.



Look up W4IX’s score for the ARRL DX CW contest. He just runs 100 watts
like me when at home. He always manages to find a run freq.



Kevan

N4XL

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:34 AM, K9MA <k9ma at sdellington.us> wrote:

> But how, exactly, is a little pistol to procure a run frequency when every
> open band is packed wall to wall, and stacked three deep, with big guns
> calling CQ?
>
> 73,
>
> Scott  K9MA
>
> ----------
>
> Scott Ellington
>
>  --- via iPad
>
> > On Mar 7, 2016, at 10:42 PM, Stephen Bloom <sbloom at acsalaska.net> wrote:
> >
> > but I do think the little pistols should try running ..more than they do
> > ..especially later in contests ..or slow times in general.
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