I have aregistered the teams for today.  I am having trouble with my e-mail program and lost the second copy of the registration for team SECC#1.  The registration for SECC#2 is shown below.  The SECC#1 team is K4BAI, KU8E, N4IQ, N4EEV, and NN4K.  Please review the contest rules before it starts.  Power is limited to 100W.  You must use the call you are registered under.  I hae added AA4LR to team two to fill out five, but Bill may not be able to be QRV.  You may not operate more than 10 of the 12 hours of the contest.  Off times must be a minimum of 30 minutes (meaning that if your last QSO is at 0030Z for example, your next QSO can't before 0101Z if you are operating full time).  If you are not operating full time, you don't need to worry about your off times.  Show your team in your Cabrillo log header, but the actual team members will come from the pre registrations, not from your log header.  It runs 1800Z today until 0559Z Sunday on 160-10M CW.  Multipliers (North
American countries, states, and provinces) count per band, so you may be asked to QSY to another band and it may be to your advantage to try. 

I usually listen for a few minutes before the start and start on whatever band it seems I might be able to run on.  If there is any signal on ten meters, I'd start there since most QSOs will be mults for that band and openings may be few and far between.  We might get some spotty sporatic E and it is worthwhile to check that band often.  For the afternoon hours, I move between 20 and 15 trying to work all mults on both bands and trying to run as much as possible.  If you don't try running, you will never work the other guys who are just doing S&P.  In the afternoon, I try to be on 15 on the half hour and 20 on the hour just to keep a rhythm going and not to shortchange any band.  Openings may be rare on 15 too, but keep checking 10 and 15.  You may want to go to 40 early (say 2200Z) to work the closer in mults in case it goes long later.  If 15 is completely dead, you may want to switch between 40 and 20 in the afternoon.  Eventually, 20 will be dead or almost dead and for the rest of the period you will switch between 40 and 80, with 160M whenever you can find activity there.  I try to be sure to be on 160M on the half hour from 0330Z on to the end.  If you are planning to be full time, the conventional wisdom is to take 30 minutes off here and there in the afternoon when the rates begin to decline.  I usually don't do that.  I usually take off 30 to 45 minutes for supper with my wife around 0000Z.  Then I are not on the air for the last part of the contest.  That way, I don't stay up too late and I miss the last few hours where QSO rates drop as the participants drop.  It makes sense to take your off times except for 30 minutes and come back for the last thirty minutes to pick up western mults on the low bands, but that is more important in the summer contests than in the winter ones since we should have good conditions to most of the country on 80 (and 160 except perhaps for the west coast) much earlier in the evening.

The most important thing, of course, is to have fun.  So good luck and much fun. 

If you haven't signed up for a team, get on and have fun too and give the team members a lot of QSO points.

73, John, K4BAI.