[CQ-Contest] How Do You Tune SSB

[rjairam at gmail.com]

Tune until it doesn’t sound like Donald Duck

Easy

Ria
N2RJ

On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 3:46 PM <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?
>
>
>
> 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,
>
>
>
> Pat - KZ5J
>
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