[SECC] Contesting preps

[kt4zb at aol.com]

Good luck to everyone in the ARRL DX Contest this weekend. And, wouldn't you know once again Kavan shares contest tips so that we can all be more competitive. And then he states that he has antenna work to do and won't come out to play. What am I supposed to do?


Well, here is my tip. This year I will have my Mexican dinner and frozen margarita before starting the contest. That should make the weekend go batter. Maybe a whole pitcher of margaritas.


cu on the bands – Jere, KT4ZB


-----Original Message-----
From: Kevan Nason <knason00 at gmail.com>
To: secc <secc at contesting.com>
Cc: tim.ei8ic <tim.ei8ic at gmail.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 3, 2017 2:28 pm
Subject: [SECC] Contesting preps





Fellow SECC folk.


One thing I still do before a major contest is revisit contesting tips I've read on how to be more competitive. I only enter a few contests a year so doing that refreshes my memory on techniques that work and helps me prepare mentally for the upcoming event. One of the places I still frequently go          back to is EI8IC's web page. Don't know if any of you have been there or not but he has a contesting section that you can drill down to.   (Thanks Tim!)

        

        
        
Early on while contesting I would read stuff like this and          feel overwhelmed. So each contest I would pick three or four ideas that          made sense to me, write them down on sticky notes, and post          them around the operating station. My eye would run over them now and then during the contest and remind me to try them out. Eventually, they either became          second nature and I replaced them with new ideas or I threw them out as not being very effective          for me and found something new to try. Doing that helped improve my scores.


One of my favorite topics of his is titled "Contest Operating Tips". It has          been pretty useful to me.
        

        
        
http://www.mapability.com/ei8ic/contest/operate.php
        
        
          


Unfortunately, I've been sick and neglected the house and          antenna work for the last few weeks so I'm not playing this          weekend. Y'all have fun!

        


Kevan
        
N4XL
      
    
    
  



_______________________________________________
SECC mailing list
SECC at contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/secc

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/secc/attachments/20170303/1bf6ec5b/attachment-0001.html>