[CQ-Contest] Contest SSB Frequencies

[Richard DiDonna]

One other point to note and nobody has mentioned this - if you are a multi transmitter station or doing SO2R , it’s much easier to say “please QSY to 14.202”. If you’re on 14.202.6 a station might not hear you and you might not make the QSO.  You could say “please QSY to 14.202 point 6” but it is a bit more challenging.

The distinction is slight but it is a distinction.

73 Rich NN3W

> On Aug 17, 2023, at 4:21 PM, Dan Violette <danki6x at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I saw this phenomenon get going when digital displays were fully embedded
> and many ops had never operated a non-digital display radio.  Just felt
> weird to be on 14302.57 when 14302.00 or 14303.00 or even 14300.00 was so
> close...  I even wanted, with that, to verify what I saw was accurate.  The
> old see the "00" and assume it IS "00" problem (accuracy, precision, etc.).
> When we did not have digits shown, we didn't care except near band/class
> edges.
> 
> Dan KI6X
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+danki6x=gmail.com at contesting.com> On
> Behalf Of Jim Brown
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 7:11 PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest SSB Frequencies
> 
>> On 8/16/2023 1:18 PM, Steve London wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Thanks, Steve. I couldn't imagine what this was about!
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
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