[CQ-Contest] Contest SSB Frequencies

[Steve London]

This "you're on a fractional frequency" thing seems to be a characteristic
of new hams. They have their tuning rate set to 1 kHz and don't understand
how to change it to 10 or 100 Hz.

73,
Steve, N2IC

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 1:07 PM Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ideally yes - in reality, not even close to being possible.
>
> 73 Rich NN3W
>
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 11:29 AM Barry Jacobson <bdj at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hi, due to poor hearing, I am not on SSB that much, but mainly CW.
> However,
> > some improvements with my hearing device have made me more willing to try
> > SSB. I am wondering if people always use integral number of KHz. In CW, I
> > never paid attention to exact freq, just found empty freq in band and
> > called CQ. But recently was calling CQ for a ragchew in SSB, and the
> fellow
> > said I am on a fractional freq and wanted to know exactly what it was so
> he
> > could tune it better. Said was unusual. Is that always the practice in
> SSB
> > and in SSB contests to use whole numbers? I imagine the bands get crowded
> > and not always so easy to find a whole number freq. Please correct me if
> > that is standard practice in CW and RTTY, as well, something I never knew
> > about.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Barry WA2VIU
> >
> > --
> > Barry Jacobson
> > WA2VIU
> > bdj at alum.mit.edu
> > @bdj_phd
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