[SECC] SS notes

[David L. Thompson]

It was so much easier from Mississippi years ago.  On phone get near 21.3
beam NE or NNE and run W1, 2, 3, 4 (VA), 8,9,0, VE1-5 for hours and hours.
Then switch to 20 and do the same.
Work the rest of W4 off the side of the antenna or 40 at night.

In between work with the beam west or slightly NW to work Texas, Okla,
Calif.  Let the rarer states come to you or spin across the band and catch
the ones you need.  KL7 and KH6 were fairly easy from SW Mississippi.

But for ease of operation back then you could find K6EVR right on 21.3
running for hours and never turning his beam.   But I have always wondered
how he had #120 after 75 minutes when I was on #70.  W6PQW sat on 10 meters
(in 1959) and worked 900 stations with 90 watts.  He is W6BH now (see his
web page).

Oh, way back when the power limit was 150 watts INPUT.  You got a multiplier
to run low power.
Yes, some hams did run 1KW but usually lost out due to the multiplier.  Sure
would be nice to limit the SS to say 200 watts now.  Gosh, if you can't work
W6 with 200 watts you need better antennas.

I think that from Georgia if you break 200K on SSB and 175K on CW you are
doing something.

73 Dave K4JRB