Topband: Narrow Filtering

[Bill Gillenwater]

Maybe there are a few "push-button" contest ops. If you are calling CQ and 
not  adjusting the RIT when the rate starts to fall off, then you are 
missing some callers. Some callers will just give up. It's one thing for an 
op to not answer you when he has callers that are 10 deep, but when he is 
getting few to no callers, if he's not moving the RIT or widening the 
filtering then he's missing callers. With conditions changing on certain 
bands and brief openings to certain parts of the globe you want to nail each 
caller when you have the chance.
73 Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GEORGE WALLNER" <gwallner at the-beach.net>
To: <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Narrow Filtering


> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:37:38 -0800
>  "Rick Karlquist" <richard at karlquist.com> wrote:
>> During the recent contest, I was trying to work a
>>station in
>> Europe that was about 200 Hz below an east coast big
>>gun.
>> The big gun come back to me several times...
>
> It got crazier than that for me. I was calling a European
> station, adjusting the TX FRQ 20 Hz at a time trying to
> get into his filter. I made three other QSO-s before I got
> him: it was easier just give a report to whomever
> (erroneously) replied to my call.
>
> BTW, great conditions Friday night: lowest noise I've
> heard in a long time. Did anybody else experience lower
> than usual noise levels?
>
> George, AA7JV
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