[CQ-Contest] How Do You Tune SSB

[Steve London]

Make sure you have your receiver bandwidth opened up enough - At least 2200 Hz, 
and up to 3000 Hz will improve intelligibility. Many modern rigs let you 
continuously vary the bandwidth.

73,
Steve, N2IC

On 02/22/2020 11:41 AM, pwhelton at earthlink.net wrote:
> Sorry for the novice question but .. I do a lot of CW.  I participate in CW
> contests and can usually survive.  Last night I thought I'd give the CQWW
> 160 SSB contest a shot.  Now I know why I don't participate in a lot of SSB
> contests.  I had a heck of a time trying to tune stations in.  Either I was
> too high or too low.  The QSB didn't help matters either.
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> I don't have a very good antenna setup on 160 so it behooves me to be right
> on frequency in order to make the contact.  I made about 140 CW contacts
> during the CQWW CW contest but SSB is a different animal.  Is there a secret
> to tuning SSB so that it's intelligible?
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> Sorry for the dumb question but I wouldn't mind making a couple of SSB
> contacts on 160.  After that I guarantee you I won't be doing much SSB work.
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> Regards,
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> Pat - KZ5J
> 
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