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

[Edward Sawyer]

Taking a look at your station picture, if you are running an amp, you are hardly a "little pistol" Scott.

CQing is an "art form" on SSB if you are not at one of the multi-ops running a stack and can get on the band an hour before it opens to claim a frequency and then have a group of "bouncers" standing by to shun people off when they get too close by their definition.

High in the band, aim south, west or north when others are trying to fight it out for EU, run on 20 when others are on 15 wall to wall, etc etc.

I ran for years using Low Power.  Granted my station was somewhat better than yours but at a 10dB+ power disadvantage, the difference was probably not that much.  And I even ran into JA, SA, and the PAC so its not even about being in W1.

You just have to want to do it.

Ed  N1UR