Topband: To Topband Contesters ( 1 Day After)

[Sam Morgan]

There has been a thread on another list mentioning folks inability to zero beat 
the station they were calling. I think it may be more a case of this narrow 
filters being used. I managed to get a number of contacts that would not respond 
to my zero beating their cq's. After a couple of tries I would then call about 
100-150hz up or down from their frequencies. It's gotten to be a habit for me 
try that technique almost all the time, if I really want to make the contact.

Then again with 100w out the K3 and 6w ERP off the Hi-Q 6/160 @ 20'. you do what 
you can to trick your way into completing the Q. ;-)

GB & 73
K5OAI
Sam Morgan

On 2/2/2011 12:27 PM, bruce whitney wrote:
> K8OT I guess I will break my code of silence on this issue. I haven't really
> been at this too long - but you might want to keep in mind that with the
> extreme conditions of this contest I was running my receive BW down as low as
> 20 to 100 HZ many times. I would try and widen it up - just to get clobbered
> and not be able to hear anything but extremely strong signals. I also would
> wiggle my RIT around a bit - but it is certainly conceivable that somebody
> responding to a CQ - if not zero beat - could get missed - at least for a few
> cycles maybe. Bruce W8RA
>