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Today's Topics:
1. SS CW Activity Analysis (W4OC@aol.com)
2. SS-CW (halken)
3. Hear what you sounded like at V47T (David Jones)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 14:29:07 -0500
From: W4OC@aol.com
To: secc@contesting.com
Subject: [SECC] SS CW Activity Analysis
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I have updated my original SS CW activity
analysis from the received logs to include
2006 through 2014.
The analysis is total number of QSO's by band
and by hour for each year and a summary of all
nine years.
This info helps in planning off times and best band(s)
for operating by hour based on historical data.
If interested, contact me directly and I can email
the analysis pdf files to you.
73
Don W4OC
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 15:20:44 -0500
From: halken <halken@comcast.net>
To: SECC <secc@contesting.com>
Subject: [SECC] SS-CW
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I thought I would echo some of K4BAI's suggestions - and I recall Bill
Fisher (sk) mentioning some of these as well....
1 - Stay in the chair for the first six hours - at least. Don't think
about getting up.
2 - Take off times in half-hour increments...
3 - Prepare!
I am always amazed at the email on the logging software reflectors
about how to set something up -- 1 hour before the start. The station
should already be 100% checked out - the start is only 48 hours away.
Update SCP and a history file if you use those...
I always have a slip of paper under my elbow of stations I have
worked in rare sections in years past. If you can't remember WD0T is in
SD - well, it's on your slip of paper.
Study the propagation forecasts and activity by band by hour in
past years. (W4OC has national data. Check your own past logs for
local data)
4 - 15M is a good band to put a second radio on if you are SO2R. At the
start it's mostly the West Coast coming in, and over many years I have
found it impossible to run on 15 from the East Coast at the start - even
when signals were strong. I would not go near 15M at the start if I
only had one radio. You can work nearly all those W6s later in the day
on some other band, and none of the west coast sections are "rare."
5 - There are no meters like 40 meters. W9RE and I have had chats and
agree that you can post a very good score (probably not top 10) by just
staying on 40. Park on 7032 and call CQ for 24 hours and you can be
over 160K points. A low dipole on 40 is a great SS antenna. A lot of
serious contesters put up low dipoles just for SS. You will need to be
LOUD to hold down 7032, hi, hi.
6 - Check 160 on the hour and half hour. There are some 160-only
non-contesters who seem happy to hand out Qs every year. You can't get
them anywhere else and every Q counts if you are trying for a big score.
7 - My impression is the last hour and particularly the last half hour
are very poor. Others may see it differently. Working the west coast
on the low bands is esy (and necessary) on the first night. On the
second "night" remember the contest ends around sunset on the west
coast... With a good station you can work the west coast on 40 and 80 at
the end...but there won't be many of them left on the air...
8 - I have worked VY1 several times very early on Sunday morning, around
1100Z-1200Z, by calling CQ on the bottom end of 40. VY1JA used to S&P
40M around that time every year and there is little competition.
Please post to 3830 and contribute your score to SECC - even if it's 10
QSOs.
Most of all...Have fun -
73,
N4GG
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 09:18:02 -0500
From: "David Jones" <w2gdj@wildblue.net>
To: <NCDXCC@yahoogroups.com>, "SECC" <secc@contesting.com>
Subject: [SECC] Hear what you sounded like at V47T
Message-ID: <4C815A8B27B24B8EA2E12F26DD757295@DavidandJoanne>
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Win-Test Qso Player by F6FVY
Win-Test Qso Player by F6FVY
Listen to your QSO with V47T during the CQWW SSB 2015 contest!
View on km3t.org Preview by Yahoo
Click on the link and fill in your call (or a friends call if you want to compare) for the V47T during the CQWW contest.
Dave W2GDJ
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