[SECC] Starting Band

[Bill Coleman]

On 10/30/01 9:37 AM, Jay Pryor at jpryor@arches.uga.edu wrote:

>So what's the prevailing thought about the starting band for CWSS?  

HP or LP? On HP, go for 10m -- it's the conventional wisdom of starting 
on the highest open band. That's where a lot of activity will be.

For Low-Power, in the first 30 minutes, you're going to have a hard time 
making it through the wall of high-power stations on 10m, if 10m is open. 
However, it's a great time to go to 20m and work a lot of stations, since 
it isn't too crowded for a LP station to be effective.

Worked for me in the last couple of Phone SS. (Unfortunately, I wasn't 
able to give them a full-time effort)

>Maybe CQ on 20M with R1 and look around with R2 on 10M/15M?  Or start CQing 
>on 15M while looking on 10M?

Good plan. Whereever you can find rate is good.

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
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            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901


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